Caged+Bird+school+notes

Caged Bird school notes
 * when the story starts the narrator has no self-confidence
 * What she sees is a society that values people who aren’t like her
 * her family likes and supports her
 * Community is made up of people who support each other
 * sometimes because they have to!
 * 1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson
 * Case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court
 * Determined that school districts could have segregated schools
 * also allowed other public segregation
 * Separate but equal


 * In reality schools did not get equal facilities
 * Sometimes black schools got athletic equipment – assuming that was the only way those students would excel
 * If you’re not given any good equipment (science labs, library, etc.) you can’t excel
 * When white schools got new textbooks and equipment the old stuff was given to the black schools.
 * Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
 * Declared that schools must be integrated.
 * Declared that separate but equal doesn’t happen, in spite of law
 * Actual integration didn’t happen until 1960s – Civil Rights Act