Regents of the University of Michigan Remarking on the different goals parents had for men and women, one black man whose family encouraged him to go to college and get an education mentioned: I had three sisters and they were all married at sixteen years old. Becoming a good wife, raise children, provide a clean home environment, cook, being a good cook, but hmmm. There was no talk about college.

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