Abstract

Escape from the Dark Cave

The author says that at Miles College, in Birmingham, Alabama he is responsible for trying to develop and conduct a freshman program for some 300 young men and women, all black, who come from the local schools in Alabama. They come since the Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of the schools. But hardly one of 300 freshmen has ever had a white teacher before, or been to school with white classmates. Alabama is now fiftieth on the list of states in per-pupil expenditure for schooling and in the South black schools seem to get the short end of the budget allocations. The author in his freshman class of social studies explain the American social and political structure to fifteen black young men and women, who already know more about the dirty side of that system.