1929: Black and white relations in the South were stratified along racial lines. Education was officially segregated, with facilities for black and white children "separate but equal."
Today: In the urban South, many African Americans, as elsewhere in the United States, have gained economic and professional status. Poor blacks everywhere in America are experiencing poverty and poor education at record low levels. Education is supposedly integrated, but neighborhood racial patterns have worked against equallzing education.
1929: While the family structure was beginning to disintegrate because of social changes in the country, most families had two parents and extended families living close together was common.
Today: The two-parent "nuclear" family structure has been shattered by high rates of divorce and remarriage. A relatively high percentage of children in the United.....
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