Nov. 2010-Resegregation
11/09/10 James Logan shows his support for Waddell high at Tuesday night's CMS board meeting which could determine the fate of several CMS schools. (ROBERT LAHSER - [email protected]). Read more at http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/11/09/1825269/cms-closings-111010.html#ixzz1IUGIGZRo
Over the last year, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has protested that school leaders in Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C., of re-segregating public schools. In Charlotte, charges were made at school board meetings as budget decisions are made to close neighborhood schools. Protestors were escorted out of a meeting chanting “No justice, no peace.” School administrators say that their recommendations are needed due to a budget deficit in the millions.
September 1957 -- Desegregation
(Created/Published: 1957 Sept. 4. Photo by Jim Dumbell of the Charlotte Observer newspaper).
Half a decade after Dorothy Counts walked with her head held high in a sea of sneering, jeering students to attend an all-white high school in Charlotte, public schools in the region are no longer required to use busing to ensure classrooms are integrated.
While the state’s highest court rescinded Judge McMillan’s 1963 order requiring schools integrate by busing immediately, neighborhood school districts still separate students of different socio-economic status (Southworth & Frankenburg, 2008). Magnate, private and out-of-district suburban schools further segregate the public school students by race.
While the state’s highest court rescinded Judge McMillan’s 1963 order requiring schools integrate by busing immediately, neighborhood school districts still separate students of different socio-economic status (Southworth & Frankenburg, 2008). Magnate, private and out-of-district suburban schools further segregate the public school students by race.
- How did such division of haves and have-nots develop in public schools?
- Why were public schools segregated initially?
- What was the context of the beginning of education in Union County?
- A look at the earliest schools in Union County provides some perspective on the question of racial division in today’s public schools.
- Consider why and for whom schools were built them in Union County.
- How were they funded and for what purpose?
- Who were the teachers?
