What is the “Black Table”? The “Black Table” is a table that is a spot for only black students. This was placed when the schools began to “integrate”. Near the time of the Civil Rights Movement. A man named Graham had been in school when they placed this table in the cafeteria. He returned a few years after he left the school and still sees the “Black Table”. To him this is a serious problem, and I completely agree with him. One of the reasons that this is a serious problem because it will make colored students inferior to others. Some blacks have a white student as their friends, and this table shows that blacks are still under others and the whites are above all. Almost like a caste system for races. This table represents the unfairness