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Why would most urban black children at that time be unaffected by the decision? (the banning of segregation in public schooling systems.)

Answer 1

@dan815 can you help? it's Honors US History

Answer 2

@hugsnotughs can you help?

Answer 3

@e.mccormick ??

Answer 4

Well, where were most black children?

Answer 5

in the african american schools.

Answer 6

Well, to be more clear, in the black parts of towns. The towns and cites themselves were so segregated that there were very few black children that were able to go to a school that whites used.

Answer 7

ahh. that makes sense. thank you!

Answer 8

If you look at the death of Emmett Till, the tipping point event that put the Civil Rights Movement of the late 50s into high gear, you will see that in the town he was visiting and was murdered in, the blacks only went to one store, had a separate school, lived apart from whites, and so on. In places like that, the changes in the 60s were actually very minor. People still found it in their best interest to stay separated and it took a very long time for any significant integration.

Answer 9

wow. thank you so much! thats way more than my teacher has taught us. everything we have seen has been based off the fact that the whites were being ignorant pigs and just not letting the blacks in, theres nothing about blacks not wanting to be integrated.

Answer 10

It was very complex. There was a lot of fear. There were many, many blacks that knew that they would be hurt even if they had the protection of the law. Things like the KKK were very huge walls. So it is not as much that they did not want to as it was that they felt there would be consequences if they did.

A few, a relatively small few, were willing to take those risks. Some were hurt. Some died. But their struggle showed others a path. More and more people took that path.

Why the death of Emmett Till was so important in this was it showed the whole world just how bad it was. All he did was whistle while in the wrong place and he was murdered for it. A whistle! When a 15 year old boy can be killed for whistling, and the people that killed him are let off without punishment, it is a time of horrors.

That got a lot of white support for civil rights. Sure, a lot of blacks suddenly realized they had to do things too! In fact, probably more blacks than whites! But it did get white support in places it never would have before. There were whites in denial over just how bad it was and they could not ignore it any more.

Finally, large numbers of blacks and small numbers of whites started working together towards civil rights. Then the country began to change.