The importance of literacy was very important in the Post-Civil War, Reconstruction, and Reaction (1865-1920). This form of communication was a threat to the whites because it allowed freedom of speech for the blacks, it allowed individuals to keep in touch with loved ones and it strengthened self-esteem to even the young.
The importance of literacy was a threat to the whites. They realized that blacks had a voice and they wanted to silence their voice. The whites felt that the blacks did not have the right to communicate. This was a state wide opinion. This was so important to the whites that the government passed a law to prohibit blacks to read and write as stated in the article from NEW Media Black History posted March 28, 2012. “In 1740 South Carolina became the first state to pass a law prohibiting slave education…the idea of slaves sharing and expressing their dissatisfaction with their inhumane conditions…was the primary impetus for establishing …show more content…
Richards is about how literacy strengthens self-esteem. This example shows how she dealt with a little boy named CT. CT was a boy who spent two years in the first grade. At the time he didn’t realize the importance of literacy until Ms. Richards put it in the forefront for him. After she realized that he was good at building things. She let him continue building with the understanding that literacy was important as well. She said “of course, if you want to build them the way they really are, you might have to do a little measuring, and maybe learn to spell the names of the parts you want to order. All the best contractors have to know things like that, you know”. Page 437. To conclude CT read and wrote letters to lumber companies, he ordered lumber, he read the story of Columbus and His Voyage. Ms. Richards had him dissect every avenue of building. CT did not realize that he had grown from an illiterate boy to a literate boy who graduated to the next
The importance of literacy was a threat to the whites. They realized that blacks had a voice and they wanted to silence their voice. The whites felt that the blacks did not have the right to communicate. This was a state wide opinion. This was so important to the whites that the government passed a law to prohibit blacks to read and write as stated in the article from NEW Media Black History posted March 28, 2012. “In 1740 South Carolina became the first state to pass a law prohibiting slave education…the idea of slaves sharing and expressing their dissatisfaction with their inhumane conditions…was the primary impetus for establishing …show more content…
Richards is about how literacy strengthens self-esteem. This example shows how she dealt with a little boy named CT. CT was a boy who spent two years in the first grade. At the time he didn’t realize the importance of literacy until Ms. Richards put it in the forefront for him. After she realized that he was good at building things. She let him continue building with the understanding that literacy was important as well. She said “of course, if you want to build them the way they really are, you might have to do a little measuring, and maybe learn to spell the names of the parts you want to order. All the best contractors have to know things like that, you know”. Page 437. To conclude CT read and wrote letters to lumber companies, he ordered lumber, he read the story of Columbus and His Voyage. Ms. Richards had him dissect every avenue of building. CT did not realize that he had grown from an illiterate boy to a literate boy who graduated to the next