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By Vivian Gunn Morris

During this compelling ebook, the authors placed a human face on desegregation practices within the South. concentrating on an African American group in Alabama, they rfile not just the profits but in addition the numerous losses skilled through scholars while their group university was once closed and so they have been compelled to wait a White desegregated college throughout city. This quantity is an in-depth examine the unmet supplies of faculty desegregation which may aid us supply a top quality schooling for all little ones within the twenty first century.

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Punish the Negro—whip him until the blood runs in streams when he is wrong, but let justice be done him though the heavens fall— justice everywhere. Truth, Mercy and Justice will strengthen and adorn your race when it stands before the judgment bar of future intelligence and righteousness. Councill appealed to the Whites’ belief in a higher power in his letter. He pleaded to the “good White men” of Alabama to apply the Golden Rule; to use truth, mercy, and justice to their benefit at the final judgment in their relationships with African Americans.

Many of the public speakers did not appeal to the highest sentiment in man, but held up the Negro in a manner to make the white masses hostile to him. With all your best efforts for many years to come, it will be hard to undo the harm which was done to my race by that campaign into which was put so much unkind feeling. Not that you put a premium on suffrage. That was right. Not that the white man become supreme in government. He was that already. But in the sentiment manufactured against us. Was such a campaign necessary?

A one-sided education is a dangerous thing for any people. The Negro needs a full-rounded education. ” The majority of our schools are taught in churches and society halls. Worse than poor are the most of our rural school houses. In many of our towns and cities the same wretched conditions obtain. Dr. ” In most of our cities the Negro school houses are badly overcrowded. Nothing more needs to be said regarding the general condition of Negro school houses in Alabama; for you, my fellow teachers, face the situation daily and you know too well the wretched conditions which obtain.

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