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Michelle Birdsong Summary

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This account handles the story of Michelle Birdsong who grew up in the south during the 1950s, living on the Tennessee and Kentucky border Michelle and her family were constantly subjected to the Jim Crow laws of the times along with the humiliation. One of her earliest recounts deals with discovering that the outdated textbooks they were using in the ‘Black’ schools were actually hamidown textbooks from the white schools in the area along with the lack-luster education already available to the black youth of the area, for example she remember one teacher coming in hungover and slept the entire lesson while she teached, put these individuals at an extreme disadvantage compared to the dominant group at the time. Michelle and her family also
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