Brown V. Board Of Education Case

There have been a multitude of cases that have affected America. One that affected America the most was the Brown v. Board of Education case. The Brown v. Board of Education case was a multitude of cases combined into one to address the issue of segregating African American students from white public schools. This case affected the lives of many African Americans and was taken up to the Supreme Court, where they declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were considered unconstitutional. The aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education case led to many changes in schools, the rise of violence and hate crimes, and it paved the road for the modern civil rights movement.
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African Americans were now able to have a proper education, but due to this there were some people who disagreed with the Supreme Court decision and even took action. An example would have to be the ‘Little Rock Crisis’, or also known as ‘Little Rock Nine’, where nine African American students enrolled to Little Rock Central High School in 1957 but were denied entrance by the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, due to their skin color. The children didn’t get to attend the school until the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower where he states that “Whenever normal agencies prove inadequate to the task and it becomes necessary for the Executive Branch of the Federal Government to use its powers and authority to uphold Federal Courts...I have today issued an Executive Order directing the use of troops under Federal authority to aid in the execution of Federal law at Little Rock, Arkansas…” The hatred towards African Americans were so bad that the President had to step in and take action as if he was a father trying to settle a fight between his two children. There was also the ‘Massive Resistance’ in which U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia wanted to unite white politicians and leaders of Virginia in a campaign in which they would discuss new policies to keep public schools from desegregating. Many schools and even the school system itself were shut down in 1958 and 1959 to prevent African American entering the …show more content…
Though this achievement in human history helped minorities, it didn’t completely solve of the issue of desegregation in schools. In 2007, there was a study conducted by the ‘Journal of Educational Psychology’ that analyzed tons of previous studies on how teachers interact with students. The studies show that teachers express more of a positive behaviour, such as encouragement, towards the white students. Then, there was another study conducted by the ‘American Sociological Association’ and they state that "Substantial scholarly evidence indicates that teachers—especially white teachers—evaluate black students' behavior and academic potential more negatively than those of white students.” From this it can be taken that even in the year 2016 people still have negative expectations of African Americans. There are news reports everywhere of African Americans committing acts of violence and crime. It's disappointing to admit, but these reports are true. There are statistics showing that in between 1980 and 2008, African Americans committed 52% of murders and that in 2013 alone they have done about 31.1% of murders. It’s no wonder African Americans get treated so differently in schools because teachers think they are criminals and and will do something to them if they get on their bad

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