Underfunded segregated black schools often still matched white schools in quality

Evidence

No matter which position was taken, education was highly valued in African American communities, as it was for their white counterparts. School-related activities were often considered the core of community life. Black schools in the South suffered from underfunding since no tax money from white taxpayers was spent to educate black children. In spite of this inequality, however, many of the schools attended by black children were as good (and some better) than their all-white counterparts. Many southern black teachers were educated in the best teacher education institutions in the North—University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Chicago, and Teachers College—but were prohibited from teaching in white schools (Ladson-Billings, 2004), a fact that is often overlooked when considering the history of segregation. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1179

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the polyad’s challenge to deficit narratives about marginalized schools, linking to ch21’s deficit frameworks analysis. — connects to: Separate-but-equal graduate schools failed because hastily created black institutions were never truly equal. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3902