1950-1980

This section of the "School" video was quite interesting. Even though I was already aware of a lot of the larger parts in history, like desegregation, I didn't know the smaller things, like the 30,000 black teachers who were displaced. Over 60 years of legalized segregation, that's unbelievable. Like someone mentioned in class on Tuesday, 60 years isn't really so long, but when you're in the history, when it's 60 years that you have to wait, that's when it feels like forever. I'd like to think that segregation will never happen again in my lifetime, that people would never be so cruel, but I cant be sure. It's obviously that Maine still has a long way to go.