Because I’m a black child, who can not be around any white children in school, if I do go against the law I would end up being arrested or sent to jail or killed or hang. The US government feel that African American and Mexican children should be separated from white children in school.
American school where segregated were longer than 1950 to 1980 when watching the film “Teach Us All” on Netflix. It was sad and uncomfortable reading this character as African American. About seventeen states by law were students have to be segregated in school. Mostly the states have segregation was in the South. My grandmother was raised during segregation and faced the Jim crow laws in the south. African American parents were upset in some local areas that there are paying taxes to support the school where their children were not attending and not receiving an equal education. The school board felt that they were separate but equal.
However, it turns out to be false there where separate but unequal in the school system. The modern fight for equality was in Topeka Kansas where the high school was integrated with African American and white attending class together, but any actives and sports were separate. The Brown vs. the board of education comes up about have everything equal for all children in the community. A Topeka parent in the Brown case says “It wasn’t that we wanted our children to go to school with white children. That was not the gist of it all. We wanted our children to have a better and equal education, which we knew that they were not getting” (Streep, M, page 137). That show African American parents want their children to have everything equal for them what they did not receive when there were children.
African American has been fighting their whole life from slavery to the freedom of education, and equal rights. During my grandma and her parents time people of color could not go to college because of laws like the Jim Crow laws that separate blacks from whites. However, now for my generation and time, we can go to college because of help from those who could not go in the past. I am taking the opportunity to continue my education as African American that was fought for so that I may have a bright future for me and show others the path as well.
Because I’m a black child, who can not be around any white children in school, if I do go against the law I would end up being arrested or sent to jail or killed or hang. The US government feel that African American and Mexican children should be separated from white children in school. 
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