One of the leading members of the society was a teacher at Princeton (and later President) Woodrow Wilson who was adamantly against the desegregation of schools. ... Paul befriended many kids and teachers at his grammar school, often winning the hearts of those who had previously not taken a liking to him when they had first met. ... This was just a natural reaction to the open heartedness, kindness and friendly nature that Paul often shared with his classmates and teachers. ...
Emma Lou notices that the other teachers have lighter skin and begins to imagine that they are discussing her behind her back, because she is so dark (201). ... The teachers send her a note in an attempt to help Emma Lou avoid the gossip and criticism behind her back. ... The teachers are reaching out to her, but the deeply imbedded views that her color is undesirable and only through lightening her color will she find the right people forces her to pull away once again. ...
However, her sense of belonging wavers on the first day of white-only-school, the first step into the society, where teachers and students look at her in an extremely strange way. Later she receives malice like indication black skin is a symbol of inferiority, race examination by doctor or even physical violence from her teacher. ...
The Black psychologists caucus was established with the goals of promoting and teaching psychology in Black schools, to encourage study, to explore and exchange, to set up credentials for psychology teachers, and to aid Black institutions in training and selecting psychologists. ...
It is hard enough to get your point across to a neutral audience, but for early black writers, a racial climate that suggested their inferiority was an extra obstacle that they had to overcome. Booker T. Washington and Ida Wells both, in some way or another, were writing against oppression in Americ...