Segregated schools in North Carolina- "Reading, Writing and Race" - A WRAL Documentary

Segregation in schools was legally protected until the 1954 Brown vs Board of Education case ruled legal segregation in private and public schools by race unconstitutional. However, years later many schools in various parts of North Carolina have shown a gradual return to a racially segregated system.
What are the effects of segregation in these communities? How did so many North Carolina schools become segregated again? Can segregation in schools be remedied?
The WRAL Doc team examines the growing trend of resegregation in North Carolina schools. Pam Saulsby hosts. This program originally aired June 30, 2004.
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Want to learn more about the history behind racially segregated school in North Carolina? Watch this episode of WRAL-TV's Education Matters: www.wral.com/documenting-hist...

[@AlSween]

Resegregation is well known to my generation. I was born in 83 and graduated from Goldsboro High School in 2001. I went to Happy Days for daycare for many years. Most of my friends were white. I went to North Drive for Kindergarten and was moved out of my class for hugging my friends. Each year there were fewer and fewer white students in my classes. That's because white parents wrote to each other and decided to take their children to schools in the county (Southern Wayne, Eastern Wayne, etc). White flight is the reason for Spring Creek High School even existing. The violence described in this video didn't exist when I attended Goldsboro Middle School and Goldsboro High School. It took less than 10 years for GHS to turn from a 4A school to a 2A school. Since my graduation, I have watched my mom retire from teaching at GHS, all of my teachers either have quit or retired. "Better" is subjective because when there was a Goldsboro City Schools GHS was a bright star of the community. Despite me and my peers having a great education, it was evident that the change to Wayne County Public Schools was a big part in undermining inner-city schools. Resources were divided unfairly. Just looking at how many times county schools changed band uniforms more than GHS shows that is true. Many have wanted the building that GHS has. In 2001 the computer lab had opened and a couple years later it was only available to those who don't even attend GHS. Not to mention a whole magnet school took over the C Building. It's an intricate issue and I hate that I have watched the decline in such a short amount of time.

[@neversaydie60]

I was just starting school in the 60's, I'm not sure of the exact date, I don't have that data in front of me right now. All I know is that before schools were integrated I was just fine, I loved to learn new stuff, I was a creative kid and loved to build things, write poetry, painting and the like. I had black teachers who understood how the mind of a black child worked. Many of the black teachers were mothers themselves, yes they understood better. When the schools integrated all of that stopped. I was sent to a white school . At first it seemed ok, I didn't have any racial ideations or prejudices against anyone. However that too changed over time. I had a few run ins with the white teachers and a few with white students. In most cases the white teachers sided with the white students. At that point in my life I knew very little about racism and thought of it even less, my family were not racist. As a result of certain incidents between myself and the teachers who happened to be white I started to become a very angry young man, my grades began to fall where as before they had been good. I began to hate school and finally just left school one day and never went back. Had it not been for joining the US. Army I probably would have never got my high school diploma. Back then a man could join the national guard or the reserve and with the understanding that I would later attend classes, about halfway through basic training, I was sworn in again to the regular army, after I arrived at my duty station I had to attend some classes after which I earned my HS diploma. By then the damage was done. I'm not blaming anyone for the way my life turned out actually, my life is pretty good but I've got to tell you, I was one angry, pissed off dude and wanted no part of a classroom even to this day. I tried attending College a few times but still ,I just can not stand being in a classroom. I'm still not a bigot but let me put it this way, I can't sing, ok? however I'm definitely not a pacifist either and it's not very likely that I'm gonna do any marching', marching is fine but I AIN'T DOIN that either sooo, you do the math. I'm done. By the way, attending those predominately white schools and the Army gave me exposure to not only white, but many other cultures, that helped me get along with people a lot in life.

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

America needs to be more human because even in the year 2022. There seems to be still Segregation based on race in America. We in Ghana will need to learn about this educative situation as it has happened in the early 2000s. There is nothing wrong with having children of all backgrounds in the same classroom.

[@vitus6302]

You shouldn’t lecture others about this until Ghana is as diverse as white countries.

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

@@vitus6302 Not at all.

[@vitus6302]

@@jamesbedukodjograham5508 you did though.

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

@@vitus6302 Gh diverse not by a long shot at all,

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

@@vitus6302 Not really my intention you know.

[@ericmckinney9057]

I miss Pam saulsby

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

I now realise that we are human Beings.

[@lowereastsideastrologist7769]

Very very few blacks are hurt by modern segregation of schools. They learn the white man history, with the white man textbooks, take the white man's standardized tests, and then step into the white mans world, where there is virtually no emphasis on the development of higher skills. They've engineered an emphasis on corporate and technological change, to the extent that in most instances are entirely unnecessary, or at best on superficial grounds - all in order to prevent someone who has developed higher intuitions in a field of study from going in and proving the system wrong, and so the modern intelligensia can indulge in their delusions of intellectual superiority and cower behind the veil of 'pure reason'. You might as well segregate schools, because they are not designed for blacks, or any study minded cultures for that matter. And I would rather you force me to go to your temples and pray to your Gods, because someone can question the existence Gods and doctrines, and thats what leaves an open to tolerate other beliefs, but it's impossible to question one's philosophy of mind