Black students attended the Colored School on West Broad Street through the eighth grade. The Colored School had no electricity,
no running water and only one teacher for students in the first through eighth grade. Community leaders asked for a flagpole, a fence to protect students from the street and a bus to take the high school students to Fort Worth. All of the requests were denied. Why did the author include this paragraph?
Answer: The authon most likely added that to the paragraph to give details about racism and or how it was for blacks to attend school when racism was a key probelm.
