Desegregation has harmful consequences on the child's emotions. The experiences that children have on a daily basis affect the long-term psychological effects that the child will face later in life. As Dewey explains in his book Experience & Education. “The control of individual actions is affected by the overall situation in which individuals are involved, in which they share, and of which they are cooperative or interacting parts. Because even in a competitive game, there is a certain form of participation, of sharing a common experience. (Dewey, page 53) Children who experienced the hardships of desegregation in the 1950s all faced a common experience. Regardless of the race or color of the child