Educators, Declaration, Integration, react


Question by Belle =]:

How did educators react to the declaration of integration..?

please help ..this is my history assignment..

how did educators react to the declaration of integration? (i.e. Little Rock High School.)

please provide detail informations thanks =]




Best answer:

Answer by Mr. Curious
I don't have any book information but when I first started teaching in 1985 I taught with a Mr. Vernal Crow (that's right VERNAL CROW) he was a bald as a billiar ball and he began his teaching career in 1955 in Macomb, Georgia (the town the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" was set in.) He said that by 1959 his formerly all white school had been integrated and he admitted that it was tough to see black students suddenly sitting in his room. He had grown up around a lot of blacks in Georgia so he didn't personally have a great problem with this change (he told me) but he said that several teachers would not call on the black kids for any easy questions, but would ALWAYS call on them when a difficult problem had to be solved or a difficul concept had to be explained. He said that he saw several teachers take great pride in trying to embarass the black students whenever possible. In addition he said that often teachers would refuse to intervene when fights broke out between white and black students. A third thing he saw was that some coaches out and out refused to coach black athletes. If they were forced to accept black players they would be reticent to play them or even acknowledge they were on the team.


I hope this helps some. It is not from a history book but it an experience from real life in the 1950s and 1960s South.

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