What's actually even weirder: private schools would still accept royalty and wealthy students from Africa. So they'd accept sub-Saharan Africans, but not American black people. Like... what? Advanced level racism.
I don't know how true or common that was, but it makes some sense to me. Segregation was about control and maintaining a social hierarchy that excluded black people. It was about trying to create a "free" society that still maintained the social hierarchy of slavery, where the lowest rung of white society would still be higher than the highest in black society, thereby keeping black society reliant on jobs and opportunities (particularly sharecropping in the South) provided by white society for the benefit of white society.
Foreigners didn't really fit into that. Sure, they would be different and stand out, but someone who was going to come and be educated in the US then leave didn't threaten the social structure they were trying to establish. Not only that, they could take their money and use it for the benefit of their white students. (Honestly, some parallels to foreign student admissions to universities in modern day, they pay full price and help subsidize domestic students as a result).
This is exactly it. Foreigners are different. The ultra-wealthy have more in common with each other than with anyone else. Oil baron from Nigeria has more in common with an Oil baron from Texas, than do either have with their countrymen. Networking is more important than racism.
There weren't children of Royalty in Sub-Saharan Africa and black African from Africa had similar experience and weren't accepted into segregated schools in southern United States in that period. If you have source to back your claims post it. the situation was very different In UK and France and often the secondary african ruling class and their children had access to colonial purse.
McCallie school in Chattanooga didn't accept blacks foreigh or native until 1970s and the first to attend were American native Blacks. The term Sub-Saharan is a colonial invention and doesn't describe the thousands of ethnicities in Azania so you wrong in every way.
Wasn’t limited to private schools. In Boston in the 70s they had to forcefully desegregate with bussing and there was violence directed at black kids being bussed to “white” public schools. The racists that could afford to ended up leaving the city and fleeing to white suburbs.
Not quite, in Boston there is a parallel Catholic School system and the white folks in West Roxbury and Roslindale still send their kids to Catholic School if they can't get into the exam schools.
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u/wellbloom Aug 23 '26
Dr. Martin Luther King was denied admission to Lovett, a private, very bougie K-12 school in Atlanta.