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"This case changed the face of America in away, unlike any other decision. The Brown case, as it is known, was not the first such case regarding civil rights argued before the court it is worth mentioning. It was just the most significant of what some would say was the final battle in the courts that had been fought by African American parents since 1849, which started with Roberts v. City of Boston in Massachusetts. It is also important to note that Kansas was the site of eleven such cases spanning from 1881 to 1949.
The case was named after Oliver Brown one of 200 plaintiffs. The Brown case was initiated and organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leadership who recruited African American parents in Topeka, Kansas for a class action suit against the local school board. The Supreme Court combined five cases under the heading of Brown v. Board of Education: Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The ultimate goal sought by the NAACP was to end the practice of “separate but equal” throughout every segment of society, including public transportation, dining facilities, public schools and all forms of public accommodations.
The Brown Supreme Court ruling determined racial segregation in public education was unconstitutional in Brown I, the first opinion. The court’s implementation mandate of “with all deliberate speed” in 1955 is known as Brown II. In 1979, twenty-five years later, there was a Brown III because Topeka was not living up to the earlier Supreme Court ruling, which resulted in Topeka Public Schools building three magnet schools to comply with the court’s findings. As had been the case since Homer Plessy, the subject in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a Louisiana law mandating separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites on intrastate railroads was constitutional. This decision provided the legal foundation to justify many other actions by state and local governments to socially separate blacks and whites."
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This is an interesting topic.
On the one hand, students may fair better with peers of a feather and teachers of a feather. I’ve read reports about children of color being discriminated against by TEACHERS within majority white schools.
However, we should have the freedom to go to any school we like, but due to the existence of private schools many cannot afford to go the them which creates class segregation. Is a good option to ban all private schools? Even though that is limiting freedom – I think that might be better for society as a whole.
There’s a book that describes how de-segregation never really took root. It’s called Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education
This topic ties in with housing segregation because children are only allowed to go to public schools within their local school district – at least in the Bay Area, California.
I’ve been asking myself also about segregated communities.
We fought for de-segregation, then we got the by-product. Gentrification.
My questions:
Can we have de-segregation without having gentrification?
What is worse, de-facto segregation or gentrification?
My guess is that most people want freedom to move anywhere ALONG with respect for ALL people in both communities.
I think the main complaint with gentrification is that when new money moves in, disrespect and intolerance often moves in with it. Hence the never ending need for racial justice studies and racial justice campaigns.