Good Morning POU! Hope you're have a wonderful weekend. We conclude our series with a look at the "Segregation Academy" and the correlation to today's Voucher movement, the impact of such schools on public education and the opportunities for minority children. A segregation academy was a private school in the United States that was established in the mid-20th … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African Americans and The Struggle for Education Equality
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Friday Open Thread: African Americans and the Struggle for Education Equality
TGIF POU! Today we continue our topic of education equality with a look at the legacy of disparity in funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Before the end of the Civil war, the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act (Morrill Act of 1862) was passed to provide for federal funding of higher education by each state with the details left to the state … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African Americans and the Struggle for Education Equality
Wednesday Open Thread: African Americans and The Struggle for Education Equality
Happy Hump Day POU! Before the Little Rock Nine, there was The Clinton Twelve. In the summer of 1956, Clinton High School admitted the first black students into integrated classes since the landmark Supreme Court decision on Brown v. The Board of Education in 1954. Located in the eastern Tennessee city of Clinton, Clinton High School was among the southern educational … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African Americans and The Struggle for Education Equality
Wednesday Evening Thread: This day in Black History – Hansberry v. Lee
Is this still a true? Apparently for Renisha and Jonathan, it isn't. The US Supreme Court, on November 13, 1940, ruled in Hansberry v. Lee that whites cannot bar African Americans from white neighborhoods. In 1937, businessman Carl Hansberry, Lorraine's father, defied the Woodlawn Property Owners' Association by successfully negotiating the purchase of a home at 6140 Rhodes … [Read more...] about Wednesday Evening Thread: This day in Black History – Hansberry v. Lee
Monday Open Thread: The History and Legacy of Jim Crow
Good Morning POU! This week's topic will take a look at the very real, very violent, very evil system of Jim Crow. I will not hold back, now is not the time to turn away from what was and IS still the cancerous effects of legalized and horrific torture of a people. Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: The History and Legacy of Jim Crow