Unfortunately, this role model for the young black man sometimes becomes the local drug dealer, the irresponsible black man, or the high school drop out. ... These school resources and programs are unreasonably distributed based on the wealth of the school district rather than the need of our nations students. ... However, research indicates that "African Americans tended to be concentrated in schools that are academically inadequate, since those schools with a majority of African American students tended to be vocational or technical, special education, or alternative schools rather than reg...

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... Such laws stated that blacks could not go to the same school with whites, that they had to use separate "colored only- rest rooms and drinking fountains, enter public places such as movie theatres and waiting rooms through separate entrances form whites, and ride in a special section in the back of buses and trains. ... A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go...

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His interest in art led him to become the cartoonist for his high school newspaper. (Carlin) After graduating high school, he landed a hotel job in Indianapolis, and began his first official art schooling. ... Painters became affiliated with organizations, and founded art schools. ... Emigration remained an alternative plan for African American artists and writers (Black). ...

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In most public schools history books had no existence or great scholars presented to black children. ... Prison companies have established an interest with private corporations to make money off Blacks doing reduced work, "even producing advertisements to bring in business and land contracts, touting prison labor as a cheap alternative to outsourcing to other countries" (Fredrick, 2012). It is a fact that the food that is processed like chicken, beef, and pork inside schools "have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an...

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The non-violent teachings of Gandhi have had a tremendous affect on the way King views violence and his teachings gave a great alternative to open the doors to freedom. ... King began his understanding of Jesus' teachings when he was in school. ...

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Disillusioned and pessimistic, he left school (finishing grade eight) to live with his sister Ella Mae Little Collins in Boston. ... But since the possibility of it in the United States was very little, the only alternative was to separate. ...

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The Separate but equal" decision of 1896 confirmed the segregation in the South and soon everything was being segregated, the churches, schools, restaurants, even the toilets. ... The family sent Coretta and to school to get a good education. ... Like his father he became a "social activist pastor" joining the NAACP and the Alabama Council on Human Relations, and also became very popular in the black community because of his skills. go to top The Civil Rights Movement After decades of being treated as inferior human beings who were confronted daily with discrimination the decision of the...

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