Beginnings of Black Education
Very few African Americans received any form of education in every public school that was established during the Reconstruction period. Public schools in both the South and North were segregated apparently without much debate or thought. Public schools in Virginia widely supported the supposition of reducing conflict when most African Americans had the desire to receive any form of free education. Most blacks were thrilled of establishing their schools that were not subjected to any form of interference from white supremacy, where the African American children would feel comfortable without being taunted by racial epithets (Stagman, 2012).
For instance, in Virginia many white people did not like the idea of African Americans becoming educated. These established black schools were controlled by the funding from the state government, and given that blacks were feared that they would challenge the white supremacy, as well as the white, were of the opinion that blacks would not be contented with having jobs in domestic service and working in the fields (Stagman, 2012).
However, the black established schools received very little funding, and, therefore, had few resources such as books, had inferior buildings, and the black teachers were poorly paid. …show more content…
Therefore, during the early 1933 Thurgood Marshall was one of the African American students who were rejected from joining the law school on racial grounds and Jim Crow racial acceptance policies decided to challenge this decision in the Maryland Court system. Therefore, the Murray V. Maryland case of 1936 started in 1935 before the Baltimore City Court, where Marshall argued for Donald Gaines Murray to be just as equally qualified as the rest of the white applicants (Tushnet,
Very few African Americans received any form of education in every public school that was established during the Reconstruction period. Public schools in both the South and North were segregated apparently without much debate or thought. Public schools in Virginia widely supported the supposition of reducing conflict when most African Americans had the desire to receive any form of free education. Most blacks were thrilled of establishing their schools that were not subjected to any form of interference from white supremacy, where the African American children would feel comfortable without being taunted by racial epithets (Stagman, 2012).
For instance, in Virginia many white people did not like the idea of African Americans becoming educated. These established black schools were controlled by the funding from the state government, and given that blacks were feared that they would challenge the white supremacy, as well as the white, were of the opinion that blacks would not be contented with having jobs in domestic service and working in the fields (Stagman, 2012).
However, the black established schools received very little funding, and, therefore, had few resources such as books, had inferior buildings, and the black teachers were poorly paid. …show more content…
Therefore, during the early 1933 Thurgood Marshall was one of the African American students who were rejected from joining the law school on racial grounds and Jim Crow racial acceptance policies decided to challenge this decision in the Maryland Court system. Therefore, the Murray V. Maryland case of 1936 started in 1935 before the Baltimore City Court, where Marshall argued for Donald Gaines Murray to be just as equally qualified as the rest of the white applicants (Tushnet,