Victims Without "Crimes" : Black Americans

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In this article, the reader is given insight into the educational and vocational struggles Black Americans have endured. Being born Black in the United States comes with a stigma, a label if you will, the label of being a failure. Failure is defined simply as the inability to perform. By this definition, Black Americans were incorrectly labeled, in that they were not even given the opportunity to fail. It rather was presumed that Black Americans were inferior to Whites.

As Black Americans moved into northern cities, educators were empowered to make classifications of the students. Tests were given that were racially biased, giving white students better chances to do well. These tests helped to sort the students and prepare them to "fit" into the existing social order. Since blacks were viewed in the same light as crime, prostitution, and disease, they were usually discarded and given up on when it came to education. Did the promise of an education extend to blacks? It did not appear so.

Reforms were needed in education. Blacks and whites alike began to recognize that a black child needed an education in order to be successful in his or her future vocation, or did they?

Education didn't seem to matter to the Bl

It doesn't matter what gender you are. Good teachers can be male or female and the same goes for administrators. It is rather what kind of person you are. However, in order to come to this understanding there has to be trial and error along the way and that is exactly what happened and continues to happen today.

Men continued making more pay than women doing the same job. This was due partly to the fact that the profession had become dominated by women and to help get more men back into the profession. More men leads to more male administrators to further manage the subordinate. As much as they tried to reinstate men into the profession they found it impossible to keep up with the sheer number of woman teachers around the country. Subsequently women found themselves filling all the substitute lists and advancing, in some areas of the country, to principal.

This deals primarily with the different roles men and women play in education. It begins by explaining that in the nineteenth century teachers had minimal formal schooling. Most only had completed grammar school and typically, the "cream of the crop" teachers finished high school , at best.

I agree with this article. It is a fact that inequality has plagued Black Americans in this country. When they were enslaved they had no rights. When Blacks were emancipated, they were not given an equal op

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