Racial integration was one of the largest pieces of the civil rights movement in the United States, but many fail to realize that though racial integration had considerable upside for both black and white students it is also important to realizes that reasoning behind and the execution of integration left much of the African-American population in a tougher position. In many of the stories and podcasts the hard truth that in many cases African Americans were hurt the most by desegregation. In the podcast Essay B it mainly focuses around the idea that diversity and integration in American schools is meant for the benefit of whites as and that many minorities can end up being hurt by this integration even when the education in situations where …show more content…
Students such as Marvin Barnard and Bill Alexander ended there education proud and celebrated alumni that help progress racial tolerance in education. In sharp contrast with this other students such as Jonny Holloways left the Stouffer Foundation’s experiment feeling disrespected discouraged. Johnny Holloway accounts, “I took a lot of beatings … At 14 years old feeling that you have no sanctuary at all. Feeling that your really not safe from getting beat up. And that your doing it not just doing it for yourself [, but] for a movement that's larger than yourself (IDK).” The third and final story of the podcast was on the impact that the black students of Virginia Episcopal School had on the white population. The podcast focused on one former student in particular named John Ehle. Ehle accounted that many of the back students that he befriended during his high school days allowed him to build a lifelong tolerance for other races.The idea that integration was mainly for the benefit of the majority could allow for a radical change in perspective on the civil rights era. How is it that three differing perspectives can all come out of the same general experience and