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Segregated Black Schools During the Early 1900s
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Segregated Black Schools During the Late 1800s & Early 1900s
Colored Schools
History of the Time Period
Funding
- White and Colored students were not allowed to attend the same schools
- African American children did not receive the same standards of education as white children
- There were mixed feelings over the segregation of schools
- Many African Americans believed that it was unfair to separate schools based on race, but many believed that the separate schools helped eliminate fights and arguments between students of different races
- Until the end of the Civil War it was illegal for black slaves to be educated
- In the locations where African Americans were free, many people tried to get schools built for black children, but these schools had low funding, poor conditions, and were ignored by white people
- In the 1870s the Jim Crow laws were passed which stated that schools and the education system could legally be segregated by race
- The first "colored" school was opened in 1890 in Winter Park
- In the 1896 case of Plessy vs. Fergusson, the Supreme Court created seperate schools for white and black children
- Black schools were funded by the white government
- Many white people did not want blacks to be educated because they were fearful that the blacks would fight against the white government
- Because of this, black schools were given much less money than white schools
- Black schools had less books, poorer buildings, and lower paid teachers
Education
Classrooms
- Most school buildings were extremely dirty, had roofs that leaked, un-leveled floors, and glassless windows
- The school rooms were usually overcrowded with more students than the teacher can handle or educate, and not enough desks for all of them
- Most black schools had children ranging from toddlers to eighth graders in the same classroom
- Black teachers were not as educated, or paid as high, as white teachers
- Not many black children attended school, and out of the children who did attend school, many of them left early because they needed to work on the farm
- Many white owners of the farms where African Americans worked took the black children out of school early in order to use them for labor, or they took them out just because they believed that blacks should not receive an education
- In more rural areas the schools revolved around the cotton growing season, which meant that many children only went to school for two or three months per year
- Most black children left school by the time they reached the fourth grade
Education
- The education that black children received was limited by the white people who were in charge of education
- Black schools would also receive "hand-me-down" books from white schools
- Black children were not allowed to learn about equality or freedom
- Some black children in the south were not allowed to use books that had the Declaration of Independence, or U.S. Constitution written in them because of blacks read them they would realize that they were being denied their rights
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