Conceptual Rendering     Eisterhold Associates, Inc. A love of learning ran deep within the black community despite the clearly unequal conditions in which black students were schooled. Despite crumbling buildings, aged and insufficient numbers of school books, and severely overcrowded classrooms, teachers and parents worked valiantly to educate the community's young people. This installation is introduced by an image that shows the disparity of conditions between impoverished black, and well-funded, white schools. At state and local levels, separate “white" and "colored" schools were created throughout the South and replicated in some communities in the southwest. The exhibit illustrates how the battlegrounds extended from elementary schools to some of the premiere colleges in the nation.