Changes in Education: The New South

Despite what they heard, learned quickly that the North was not the promised land that they had hoped it would be. Many left the South in order to educate their children. In New York, they found the education system as depressed as in the South. The schools were not segregated by law but by practice. Parents found that their children were not allowed to live up to their intellectual potential. Instead, they were tracked into classes that led them into trade schools. The inequality in the North was hidden but present. For many, it was becoming clear that their dreams of sending their children to college were never going to materialize. Meanwhile all over the South, schools were being built. Over two thousand schools for black children were built across the South beginning in 1923. The South was evolving.. Things were starting to change and people were longing to go home. Many stayed yes, but many caught the train home, hoping to see the South with a new face.