Chalk Talk!

On February 14th, we were divided into two groups. We did a "Chalk talk"

During this, each of us had a marker and wrote topics on the paper, if the topic was circled, we were to elaborate more on the topic, and so on. The challenge of this was that there was no talking allowed. We had to depend on ourselves and our teammate's knowledge of the chapter, in complete silence.

After finishing we had a class discussion about the assignment we just completed, and we talked about how everyone can have different ideas about the topic, but come to the same conclusion. After a small discussion, we went back into our groups and cleaned up all the ideas and made them into general ones. Our group mentioned a lot of general topics of the reading, such as, Title IX, Civil Rights Movement, and Brown Vs. Board. We also mentioned important people in this time period. We mentioned President Dwight, Little Rock Nine, and more. Almost every topic was able to be broken down and defined further.

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When we all went back to summarize everything, and organize all of our information better, we decided to choose our main topic as the Civil Rights Movement. Following that was Brown Vs. Board of Education, Feminist Leaders, Title IX, and Crystal City Schools. We decided to elaborate further on Crystal City Schools by adding diversity acceptance, scholarship loan programs, and money. What really stood out to me was that segregation only really stopped because money became involved. If segregation was still seen in schools, there would lose their funding, and that is the main reason it began to end. Of course there was loop holes to it. You could sum it up to "separate but equal." Kids were allowed to play together, but not learn together. Black students were basically considered to be special ed, and were put in different classes than whites with the saying "The black kids were simply just not smart enough to be learning with the white kids."

                   

After learning about this chapter, I realized that segregation was really not that long ago. Segregation was actually very recent. It has really only been a little over 50 years. I know that personally I am not black, but I would have been classified as black. They judged the color of your skin based on a brown paper bag. I know my skin is not lighter than the color on the bag and I would have been classified as something I am not. It is wrong to even classify people in any category besides humans and mammals. We are very lucky to have the privileges that we have today. To be able to have the same education as any other person. America has had a completely break through with education. We have went from blacks and women not having access to everyone having an equal chance of education. America gives women a much better chance than in most countries. I am very proud to be from America now that the Civil Rights movement saved us.