The Rise And Fall Of Jim Crow Summary

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In the 1950s, segregation persisted in schools, forcing African Americans to attend separate, less-funded schools with unfavorable conditions. These conditions made learning nearly impossible for many young black kids in America. The disparities between All-White and All-Black schools were made evident in The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow highlights the struggle to desegregate schools in the era of Jim Crow, where Edna Allen Bledsoe describes how her school was very obviously less funded compared to the All-White schools in her area. This lack of funding resulted in All-Black schools like Bledsoe’s missing out on basic needs like cafeterias, adequate classrooms, and working utilities. Also, according to Montgomery County History’s site on School …show more content…

Therefore, the only reason she would have to worry and write to someone from the NAACP would be because there is active resistance and issues taking place in the schools. Most likely from school faculty or other students, and that’s just what happened. White students were attacking their black peers and white school faculty were denying them entry to school programs nearly unprovoked. This shows the bias that communities hold towards people of color and their attempts to keep them out of good schools. Similar to how Bates expresses the issue of people in the south denying people of color access to all school programs, the quotes from MCPS teachers of color detail how people from the south traveled up to Maryland to deny colored students entry to the school buildings themselves. This comparison shows how people and communities in the South actively resisted desegregation and did not agree with SCOTUS’s ruling on Brown Vs. the Board of Education. Even going to the point of trying to take matters into their own hands by protesting and getting violent. For state resistance, although not directly stated, it’s clear that the New York School Board’s actions were due to the board's resistance towards desegregation and desire to keep things the way they were. As Theoharis points out, their actions gave white (racist) parents who were opposed to desegregation and the ruling of Brown vs Board Of Education exactly what they wanted. The reason they tried to hide their true beliefs on the matter by using loopholes is that New York was considered part of the “Liberal North” at the time and it would’ve affected their reputation among other states and school boards. Even though in the end, both New York and the Southern states had the same goal of resisting desegregation,

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