WHAT IS THE CENTRAL IDEA 1) Education was mandatory across the entire United States by the 1930s. Every state had a segregated school system, where White children were separated from Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color. Legally, these schools were required to be "separate but equal." This belief claimed that even if they were not in the same building, all students had the ability to prove their intelligence and be selected for higher education tracks if they worked hard enough. By the 1950s and 1960s, however, it was extremely obvious that segregated schools were not equal to each other, and children were not being given the same opportunities to compete in a meritocracy. This reality went directly against the popular theory of Functionalism, and raised a crucial question: what was the purpose of school, if not to provide equal outcomes, or even equal opportunity?

in "letter from a birmingham jail," king argues that there are four basic steps in any nonviolent campaign: "[c]ollection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action." finally, direct action is taken and acts such as boycotts and sit-ins are staged.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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