To Kill A Mockingbird: Segregation In Schools
During the 1950s and 60s, segregation in schools was very prevalent. The discrimination at times could have been brutal, and whites ultimately saw blacks as an inferior race regardless of the “Separate but Equal” law put into effect. A lot of times the whites did not even realize what they were doing, it almost came natural to them. Many higher ranking white officials claimed that the black and white schools were equal but in reality they really were not. The difference in money spent on white schools versus blacks was baffling. Most whites knew that depriving children of an education was wrong, but a lot of times they would not do a thing about it because most of them did not care because they were a different skin color. In a lot of cases,
…show more content…
It almost just came natural to them. This was the same in the school system as well. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, the teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, comes from the North with no idea what it is like in the deep South. Even the whites from the North still had no idea that the way they treated Blacks was wrong. Scouts second grade teacher, Ms. Gates, spoke of the brutal treatment of the Jews, “‘Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudice. Prejudice,’ she enunciated carefully. “ There are no better people in the world than the Jews, and why Hitler doesn’t think so is a mystery to me.” Ms. Gates later refers to the Jews treatment as one of the most terrible stories in history (Lee 329). This proves that Whites truly had no idea that they were treating blacks very similarly to the way Hitler treated the Jews. They felt that the treatment of them was awful, but they did not realize that they were doing the same thing. The teachers themselves were very hypocritical to the children in the stance that they told the children that what Hitler was doing was wrong, but in reality they were doing the same thing in their own
It almost just came natural to them. This was the same in the school system as well. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, the teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, comes from the North with no idea what it is like in the deep South. Even the whites from the North still had no idea that the way they treated Blacks was wrong. Scouts second grade teacher, Ms. Gates, spoke of the brutal treatment of the Jews, “‘Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudice. Prejudice,’ she enunciated carefully. “ There are no better people in the world than the Jews, and why Hitler doesn’t think so is a mystery to me.” Ms. Gates later refers to the Jews treatment as one of the most terrible stories in history (Lee 329). This proves that Whites truly had no idea that they were treating blacks very similarly to the way Hitler treated the Jews. They felt that the treatment of them was awful, but they did not realize that they were doing the same thing. The teachers themselves were very hypocritical to the children in the stance that they told the children that what Hitler was doing was wrong, but in reality they were doing the same thing in their own