Rhetoric in Integration and Segregation I believe in integration. After watching the video on the Little Rock Nine on 1957, I believe the nine students and the white students should be integrated together in Central High School, but I also believe they should take the nine students safety to another level. They should try to control the crowd's violent approach toward the nine students. Those nine students were invited to Central High for their excellent grades, and attendance. They should be intergrated together, the video said, "Schools are the same, but in reality they are not."
I think it is because of two basic reasons; firstly, as Tatum points out, one can relate better with peers of their own race because they too understand the difficulties of being a minority. I think she really made a great point, how can we expect a white person to understand the racism towards African Americans. Ms. Tatum gave an example regarding a 9th grade substitute teacher suggesting four-year colleges to all her white students and suggesting that a black adolescent male in her class go to a community college. It would be almost silly for that African American boy to sympathize with one of the white peers, not only would it be hard to relate to each other, it would be downright embarrassing. I actually think that the white teenager wouldn’t be able to see why the colored boy was hurt, they would just brush it off and give an explanation like “oh the teacher didn’t mean it like that”.
Warriors Don’t Cry The book is about a small group of African American Children trying to integrate Central High School. The nine students known as the “little rock nine” were the only nine African American children that were chosen to attend Central High School. The only problem is, they’re all African American students trying to enroll in an all white school. This was more than just a minor conflict, but instead the whole entire media wants to get involved and the main character Melba Pattillo Beals along with her other eight new friends make the front page. This escalates the problem and even white folks that children don’t even attend Central High School get involved and start to riot.
There is an imaginary wall between whites and blacks as seen in the HBO documentary, Little Rock Central 50 Years Later. In the documentary, there are many different perspectives. In one instance, an upper-middle class white mother and her daughter share the belief that the school is diverse and go on to say people are friends because of personalities and not because of where they live. In contrast, a black teacher at the school claims, “If you’re in an AP class, you’re out of reality.” This quote is in reference to the segregation of regular, honors, or advanced placement classes where whites represent the majority of “high-level” classes whereas blacks represent the majority of the “lower-level” classes. For white students, it is not whether or not they get accepted into college, but success is
Another peaceful protest that was a few years earlier than this was the Little Rock campaign which drew national attention to the problem of segregation in schools, while the result of the Brown vs the Board of education, was that schools should not be segregated, as the term “ separate but equal,” was impossible to achieve. The nine black students were enrolling to the Little Rock’s all-white Central High School, which in itself is a controversial topic but peaceful nonetheless. The Local Governor Orval
The article shows where two candidates Culbreth and Alexander wanted to do something different and integrate the recreational facilities for everyone, it came as no shock when both of these men lost. The integration of schools was a very hard thing for people to accept in Tallahassee. Glenda Alice Rabby further explains this in chapter twelve of her book The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida where she speaks about the first two years of integration at Leon high school and tells the stories of the first four black students to attend. In Ryals’ novel cookie was one of the first brave black children to attend the school and she was constantly reminded of her race every day. Although all of the odds were against them Rayann and Cookie still made a way to be friends, they even went on trips together into the city where they were given strict instructions on how to carry themselves while out together.
One of the positive effects of passing the DREAM Act is that it will provide legal resident status to the illegal youth living in the U.S., who are passionate about learning and furthering their education. Almost 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school each year in the United States and cannot further education or obtain a job because of their legal status. If the DREAM Act were to be passed, these students would be able to enroll in a college or university, be able to apply for financial aid and pay in-state tuition rates as well as enter the military (Bennion). Once an immigrant completes 2 years of college or military service they will able to obtain legal status. With their new status in the country they will be able to legally work study and obtain drivers’
Pg.33) By 1957 the civil rights movement had made real progress in integrating schools. How far do the sources support this statement? Use details from Sources A-D and your own knowledge to support your answer. (16 marks) Sources A-D all disagree with this statement to some extent, because they all portray the image that black people weren’t accepted in a white person’s society, despite the Civil Rights Movement going on around them. Source C, however, does support this statement marginally.
Living in a state that is not known for being racist, it was difficult seeing this occurring at another high school. I thought it was so great that Morgan Freeman was willing to pay for the costs of prom so that they could integrate all the students for one united prom. He made an excellent point when he said that it was not about changing the students, ironically, the people that teach them had to be changed. These students, mostly due to their parents influence, were surrounded by racism, and in essence, had to choose if they were for or against integration. I was astonished to see that for so many years there were black proms and white proms and that there were two homecoming queens, one black, and one white.
The barriers that undocumented students face in their path to a higher education can be overcome with the help of the Federal Government. And these can be done by passing a bill that helps undocumented students with there financial and illegal difficulties. For many years the U.S. has made it hard for undocumented students to attend college, and all because of their illegal status. These are undocumented students whose illegal status didn’t matter as they attended elementary school. But all of that changes on the day that they reach senior year in high school at the process of filling out the college application and financial-aid forms.