The Condition Of African Americans In The 1920’s Compared To Amory Blaine

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and how he still was unappreciative and somewhat selfish. According to the editor of the African American Encyclopedia, Michael W. Williams, “an average black child completed grammar school (eight years) having spent about fifty-eight months in the classroom, while a white child had spent sixty-six months in the classroom” (Williams 509). The primary reasoning behind this was that black children were needed to do the labor of white-controlled tenant farmers and sharecroppers. The African American families could not afford to miss the sharecropping sessions so the children were forced to miss school. The economic status was of no threat to Amory though. He was enrolled in one of the most, if not the most, expensive universities in the country. In addition to this, he also received an allowance from his parents. This still did not seem to satisfy Amory. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of This Side of Paradise, explains that, “His father had been experimenting with mining ...

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19). This proves that Amory was stubborn or spoiled and refused to work for what he had; which was a chance to get one of the best educations possible. Obviously, Amory understood his family’s financial situation and knew that they could afford to waste the money on him going to this school. By him not applying himself and spending more time doing other things, wasting money was exactly what his family was doing. African American children during this time attended, “…plantation owned schools, often consisting of little more than one or two rooms in which all grades were taught together. These schools never went beyond the eight grade and were shut down whenever children were ...

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