Teaching in the 1900's
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USF35-1326]
This photograph, taken in 1941 by Jack Delano, shows "Boyd Jones helping his teacher at the Alexander community school for colored children. Greene County, Georgia." While this picture seems to show a fairly middle class type school environment, segregation prevented students and teachers alike from enjoying full participation in the American Dream. As Martin Luther King said, "Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...' 'You are not equal to...'"(Struggle for Equality: Quotes From Martin Luther King, Jr.).