Tommy Walton

Eliminating the Evils of Gerrymandering After 80 Years of Hell (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

It was the authors visual testimony during this period that minorities (blacks) were not accepted in the main work stream of the American enterprise and segregation blocked the opportunity to do so. A part of this testimony is the lasting experience of being turned down to enroll in the all-white junior college in Texarkana, Texas. The only employment opportunities available were for teachers in all black schools that were rated well below the required state achievement levels. After receiving an MED from Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, additional hours in science teaching from the University of Missouri School of Mines, and a certificate from America Management Association, only marginal benefits for qualifying for better jobs were realized. Forced to teach in schools that were inferior to white schools in the same area did not create a sense of inferiority to the author but developed the need and strong urge to do something to drastically change this realization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514477694
• Artikelnr.: 52570531

Autorenporträt

My parents married and survived the Great Depression of 1929 to 1939. Their persistence to find employment enabled them to live through the Recession of 1937, the year of my birth. I am inspired that they were able to purchase a house in Texarkana, Arkansas (twin city)/Texarkana, Texas, through it all and save the money that paid my first-quarter tuition that was the fee required to enroll in AM&N College (University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff) in 1954. It was their ghostlike financial support, a room-and-board band scholarship, and my potential for a basketball scholarship that ushered me to graduate with a BS degree in premedicine in 1958. Inspiration to move into an economy that was marginalized at best in the national consciousness was given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his baccalaureate address entitled "Segregation, a Weigh Station; Integration, Our Destination."