Desegregation impacts a child's emotions. The experiences children go through on a daily basis influence the long-term psychological effects the child will face later in life. As Dewey explains in his book Experience & Education. “The control of individual actions is influenced by the entire 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 type of participation, of sharing a common experience." (Dewey, page 53) The children who experienced the hardships of desegregation in the 1950s all face a common experience. It doesn't matter what the race or color of the child is