HIERARCHY-Civil Rights, Integration, and School Reform, 1954-1980
Montāžas Teksta
- Here come the Navy yard men. I hope I don't have to give up my seat.
- MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
- She better not sit in the front
- HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL
- Why is he so mean to me
- Lazy, Stupid Negros
- I hate school
- We need equality
- Septima ClarkTaught in the segregated South and fired prior to the Brown decisionIt was unjust to rule that no city or state employee could belong to the NAACP
- UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
- No nigger***is going to get in our school!
- We need unanimous decision. The full court should be behind such a dramatic order
- Segregated public schools are not equal and cannot be made equal and that hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the law
- Bus drivers had beaten 15-year olds who sat up to the front or refused to get up from their seats and give it to whites coming in
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
- Negros do not make their kids learnJust didn't think that Negros could learn at the same rate as white children
- BOSTON SCHOOL CLASSROOM
- When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was great deal of hope in the air-Kozol
- I love this poem
- Ruled in 1954 that racial segregation in pubic schools was unconstitutional
- WHITE CLASSROOM
- So confused!
- Not sure what is going on out there?
- They glared at me with mean look and I was frighten -Elizabeth Eckford
- Get her!
- Will the troops protect me from this mob of white citizens?
- Nigger
- Lynch her!
- Jonathan KozolComplaint from a white police officer carries more weight in the Boston school system than the complaint of the mother of a Negro child.
- I'm going to memorize this poem
- The art and reading teachers as well as the older teachers went on teaching and talking and grading as if in total oblivion of the turmoil breaking all around