Dec 22, 2009

The Sound and the Fury | Compare and Contrast

1929: Black and white relations in the South were stratified along racial lines. Education was officially segregated, with facilities for black and white children "separate but equal."

Today: In the urban South, many African Americans, as elsewhere in the United States, have gained economic and professional status. Poor blacks everywhere in America are experiencing poverty and poor education at record low levels. Education is supposedly integrated, but neighborhood racial patterns have worked against equalizing education.

1929: While the family...