The public education system provides different quality of education for students based on their community and skin color. For African Americans, that means the public education system is designed to prevent black and brown students from a higher education. In his book I Am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin, an African American novelist and essayist, writes about three civil rights leaders who had their own beliefs when it came to racial issues in America during 1950s and 1960s. These men, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evers, were all assassinated before the age of 40. Baldwin believes, “I can’t be a pessimist, because I am alive… I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive. But the Negro in this country….