PBS School Series 1950-1980

I found that this chapter of the PBS School series was a lot of information that I had learned in my Special Education classes here at UMF. It never ceases to amaze me how hateful people have been in our American history, and seeing footage of the first schools to be desegregated always gives me shivers. To see the people lining up and shouting at elementary aged children as they go into a school building is something that I do not feel can or should ever be forgotten by anyone in this country, let alone students and teachers.

I feel very lucky to have grown up in America during a time where I as a female had anything and everything available to me. I think it is often easy for women of my generation to forget because we are white and middle class that there was a time in our nation's history when even we were second class citizens. I found myself feeling a little guilty watching the part of the film in which Title IX was discussed, because frankly it has never really crossed my mind as a student or educator that even here in America women have had to fight for their right to be on the same level as men.