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A 10 page research paper that examines the state of black education before, during and after the era of the infamous 'Jim Crow' laws, which served to keep blacks oppressed in the South and which provided public education with the 'separate but equal' philosophy, which was such a travesty of justice.. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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While successive waves of German, Jewish, Italian and Irish immigrants could utilize education and hard work to achieve American middle class status, education and hard work could get a black
man lynched (Painter 36). For example, a prosperous African American businessman, Anthony Crawford, of Abbeville, South Carolina was framed, jailed, beaten, mutilated, and eventually murdered by mob violence because he
committed the unpardonable sin of being a successful black man (Painter 36). Today, average academic performance for African Americans is till behind that of other ethnic groups, particularly for
African American males. However, since the end of the Jim Crow era, the educational opportunities and experiences of African Americans have improved. To understand the relationship of the present situation
to the past, it is necessary to realize how difficult it was during the Jim Crow era for African Americans to obtain an education. In other words, things have improved
because, relatively speaking, anything would be an improvement. Nevertheless, it can also be argued that all of the so-called "improvements" to the educational opportunities for African Americans have not necessarily
been beneficial. The Jim Crow era First of all, African Americans emerging from slavery in the latter half of the nineteenth century were essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally
speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read. African Americans who would later become prominent in the educational and scientific fields, such as George
Washington Carver, took advantage of schools opened by the Freedmans Bureau (Haber 74). Carver used to walk to the next town to attend the Lincoln School for Negro Children (Haber
74). However, such opportunities would become severely limited or withdrawn completely, as the Freedmans Bureau and the federal government withdrew support of African Americans due to political considerations in the
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