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
Thursday Open Thread: African Americans and the Struggle for Education Equality
Good Morning POU! After reading about the bombing of Clinton High School in retaliation for black students whose parents tax dollars were supporting the school and had the audacity to want to also attend and receive the benefits of better facilities and books unlike what they were subjected too, I wondered about other bombings and threats made during this time. Exactly … [Read more...] about Thursday 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
Tuesday Open Thread: African Americans and The Struggle For Education Equality
Good Morning POU! Today's post is a black history fact that I just learned about over the Easter weekend. A community easter egg hunt for children was being held at "the old Rosenwald school" in the county were I grew up in rural Alabama. I had no idea what that was and asked my Dad about it. That grew into an incredible conversation with my father and uncle educating me and … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African Americans and The Struggle For Education Equality