EDUC 2710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: James Samuel Coleman, National Defense Education Act, Literacy Test
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Food stamps, medicare (elderly), social security (elderly), medicaid (destitute) Encourages schools to proceed with desegregation with all deliberate speed . Ties together the legal framework for education (who has power?) and the strife of our country (racial segregation); has court, local governments, state governments, and the potus involved. Blocked by arkansas national guard on 9/4/57. Escorted by federal troops on 9/25/57 (including a federalized ar national. 9 black children were going to integrate into a school; african-american- supported governor turned on the children because he was scared he wouldn"t be reelected. Chief of the naacp went to president eisenhower for help. Eisenhower called in his own troops and federalized the state troop. You americans have a better standard of living than we have. But the american loves his far, his refrigerator, his house. He does not, as the russians do, love his country. Centered toward producing more engineers, businesspeople, physicists.
