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Simply teaching a slave to read could result in punishment for the teacher and for the student. Therefore, literacy, the basic cornerstone of education, was virtually eradicated in the African-American community within a few generations, and those who were able to learn to read were not able to widely distribute those teachings for fear of reprisals. The end of slavery did not bring the end of intentional efforts to discourage learning in African-Americans; not only were school integrated throughout the Jim Crow south, but there were also intentional efforts to prevent people from educating African-Americans. For many Americans, those times seem like ancient history, but, even after the end of legalized segregated schools, how could parents who lacked basic educations provide help to their children? They could not, and the cycle of educational poverty continued as many African-Americans continued to fall behind their classmates, unable to access the most basic of homework assistance in their homes. Ensuring that a greater...
Although there are exceptions to the rule, the higher the education, the greater the earning power. The higher the earning power, the higher the political power, a phenomenon that is only likely to be exacerbated given the Supreme Court's recent decisions about corporate money and free speech. If African-Americans lack earning power, they lack decision-making power in the modern United States. By ensuring that more African-Americans have higher educations, one ensures that African-Americans may be able to have a proportionately representational voice in government, which is something that the African-American community has never experienced.
After Truman, President Johnson recognized the need to do more in terms of general higher education. While previous federal programs were very focused on specific sectors of society, these did not encompass the needs of society as a whole. The problems of poverty and lower-income families for example remained, and where no longer related to the war effort. The President articulated these needs as he regarded them in January 1965, when
Disparities with Mental Health among African American YouthIntroductionAfrican American youth continue to face various disparities with regard to their mental health challenges. For instance, black American youth are less likely to receive mental health treatment as compared to white adolescents. According to Lindsey et al. (2012), the said unwillingness to offer treatment is usually not due to financial reasons. Rather, is due to the fact that they are black. Essentially,
African American Youth with Mental IllnessPart 1: BackgroundObservationThe African American Youth experience unique structural and contextual hurdles as they transition from childhood into early adulthood. While their experiences vary, similar cultural phenomena are prevalent and make this population more prone to mental health challenges than white peers. According to Snowden (2020), one in every five African American youth (9 million) has a severe mental illness, and less than half of
The research has high validity because much of the evidence is videotaped and not just entered in written form. This provides a more objective record of results (ibid., 137). The question of controlling or non-controlling feeding patterns and their effects on obesity are especially interesting to this author due to the potential for heading off later obesity issues. The resource will reflect on the class presentation by documenting the
African-American Academics African-American Students and Success and Failure in the School Setting Do African-American students use different strategies to achieve academic success than other groups? The strategies suggested by African-American students themselves have a lot of merit, in the matter of their own academic achievement. In a research study published by Child Study Journal (Tucker, et al., 2000), 22 elementary and 21 high school students completed an open-ended questionnaire delving into the question
..'Let there be light..." (Genesis 1:3, NKJV) on this dark subject. CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice." - Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924), African-American politician (Columbia, 1996) 2.1: All American Affected. Racial prejudice, which frequently leads to unfair acts do not just imprison the race receiving the prejudice. As Chisholm notes at the start of this section, racial prejudice imprisons all Americans. The following three synopsis reflect a sampling