Reflections on little rock pdf

This paper provides some innovative teaching methods to those who are in the field of teaching and facilitating diversity courses and workshops.

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Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin … Expand. Hidden category: Featured articles. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read Edit History. This page was last edited on 12 March , at The content is available under fair use. The Baptist church shelter leadership were not interested in speaking with the Catholic church shelters who only housed Catholics , and the Pentecostals and Methodists each maintained the same sectarian stance.

In Arkansas, our limited work was peculiar in that beyond FEMA and a few social workers, we were the only people communicating and reporting from one camp to the next. This means that there was little or no interaction between the different camps, or between the isolated individuals or families who have begun to make it into the community in apartments and motel rooms.

Neither the Red Cross, FEMA, nor the social service providers have a vision or interest for uniting the evacuees around the right of return or any broader political vision within the Diaspora. The camps were typically summer camps owned and run for their members by the different denominations in the region. Different camps varied in their warmth to our project and their own apparent interest in the desires and needs of the evacuees.

Being a white kid from up North, walking into the camps, where a solid majority of the evacuees where not white, it seemed important to be clear I was not representing the government, the social service agencies, or the church.

A couple of very different experiences are useful to demonstrate the real disparity in conditions and methods of managing the different shelters. At a Presbyterian camp outside of Little Rock, it was rumored a couple of hundred evacuees were still sheltered. I pulled up to the camp, greeted at the gate by armed sheriffs asking my purpose and organization, who then directed me to the administrative office.

At the administrative office, I signed three forms, gave my name, legal identification, and organization name, contact information, was given an ID tag, and was then freed to enter the cafeteria. Do schools with full Federal funding then have greater legitimacy in desegregation? Is the state conflating resources with rights? A reader shared his experience of studying in a Jewish school, against which a case was filed for not accepting non-Jewish students, to which it finally agreed to when directed by the court.

In this case, the school was partially funded by the state. It is interesting to note here, and while other forms of segregration continues in schools, such as religion and gender separate boys and girls schools , race always emerges as a salient issue.

Why is racial segregeration considered unacceptable, while reglious segregration is treated otherwise? In Vita Activa, Arendt recounts her days in school when her mother had told her to stand up and leave the class anytime a teacher said anything anti-semitic, and she laughingly mentions that it was a great opportunity to miss school. Arendt was no stranger to children being at the battleground of politics.

In this essay, her concern for children and childhood is evident, especially when she writes:. In some of the passages, she was remarkably prescient about the long term impacts of making chidren fight each other. In fact the two protagonists of the photo, Elizabeth Eckford black and Hazel Bryan white were inevitably entwined into a complex relationship for the rest of their lives.

It is quite evident that she is more concerned about two things more than discrimination in schools. One of course is the need to respect the three realms of human interaction, the private, the social and the public, and keep the private and the social away from the overreach of the state.

The means i. At least that what comes across clearly in the piece.