Prejudice And Racism Analysis

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Although I always knew that racism occurred for many years, I never knew much about the education of African Americans and how they were treated before the Civil War and during the Twentieth Century. I always thought that the African Americans and whites were just separated, but after reading this chapter I learned so much more. According to the text in 1833, a white schoolmistress named Prudence Crandall decided to take in African American girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. The villagers boycotted the school and tried to burn down (Ryan, Cooper, and Bolick 323). That is truly sickening to me that people could treat another race that way because of the color they are. I come from a very diverse neighborhood and school and my closest friends