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8 years for whites. booker t. washington partnered with the ceo of sears. he put $4 million and the black community matched it with 8 and necessity built four schools in the south. they closed the education gap between 1920-1940 within six months. jesse: you talk about the danger of guilty white americans always trying to help black americans. sometimes that help does not materialize. >> i would rather confront the old-fashioned bigotry. they are hurting us with the helping hand. between 1930-1940 when racism was enshrined in law, the black community had the highest
Me. tell us some things in your book most people don't know about the history of race in the united states. >> the false history is the challenges facing large swaths of black americans today, the out of wedlock birth and the violence that that's a legacy of slavery and jim crow. that's not crew. in our else says we go back to tell the real story of black america. where whites were at their worst, blacks were at their best. we were denied access to hotels, we built our own. in slant and miami. the st. theresa. i could go on. and schools, too. the education gap in the south in 1920 was 3 years.
8 years for whites. booker t. washington partnered with the ceo of sears. he put $4 million and the black community matched it with 8 and necessity built four schools in the south. they closed the education gap between 1920-1940 within six months. jesse: you talk about the danger of guilty white americans always trying to help black americans. sometimes that help does not materialize. >> i would rather confront the old-fashioned bigotry. they are hurting us with the helping hand. between 1930-1940 when racism was enshrined in law, the black community had the highest