Jim Crow Laws

We started school in a little, two-room school…which was Sims Chapel School sitting next to the Sims Chapel church. First, second, and third grades were in one room; and fourth, fifth, and sixth were in the other room.

I think this quotation describes teaching conditions that are very similar to what Grant had to deal with.  Just like Shirley Gray (who wrote the quote), he had to teach six grades in a church, which is no suitable place for learning.  Both teachers were deprived of good materials and books that we now take for granted today.  This quote also supports the fact that A Lesson Before Dying is definately based on true stories and conditions.

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2 Responses to “Jim Crow Laws”

  1.   kristennnnn Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 7:12 pm

    totally.

  2.   Lucy Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 9:13 am

    Yeah, I also realized that a lot of the details and story plots in “A Lesson Before Dying” must be heavily based on real accounts of the American past. The way Grant was forced to teach in such a minimal space with little heat or any other resources was by no means just, but was total reality, especially during segregation.