In the 1800's there was slavery. We passed a law that said you could not do such a thing, but even after that the blacks were not treated fairly. There were schools in the fifties that did not allow blacks. The schools for the whites were nice and clean. The schools for the blacks had very little supplies and were dirty. In the south states, they spent, on a average, ten times more money on white schools then they did on black schools. In 1954 this changed; those schools that had segregated children, had to bring them together. Just because they were in school together didn't mean everything was fair. When I was researching on this project I found a picture of a black girl and white girl looking at each other. This made me very sad. I felt just terrible.