Segregation In Public Schools

The United States Constitution guarantees liberty and equal opportunity to

all citizens in all of its geographical territories, and in today’s day, we are able to see

an accurate reflection of this throughout the lives of people more than ever before.

Unfortunately, these fundamental rights have not always been provided like

promised. Throughout the earliest days of America, the United States education

system ordered the separation of schooling for children based on race. In most

instances, schools for African American children were inferior in comparison to the

schools that white children were able to attend. Despite the fact that physical

facilities and many other tangible factors were considered equal, it inevitably

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Although Plessy and his team fought hard within this case, the

Supreme Court ruled against Plessy and socially downgraded blacks.

After the Civil war, the integration of African Americans as full citizens

required the ratification of the 14th amendment, which gave citizenship to previously

enslaved people of African decent and gave them equal protection under the law.

The ratification of this amendment not only affected the lives of African Americans;

it expanded upon the Civil Rights of every citizen in the United States.

Segregation and discrimination affected the lives of African Americans in

many ways but mostly by limiting their opportunities within education and the

workforce. Public schools were the first targets of reversing segregation although;

many of the cases were dismissed at the district level. Eventually Brown and the

NAACP recruited twelve additional African American families and became the case

Brown versus Board of Education. In 1954 SCOTUS issued a unanimous decision

stating that segregation was unconstitutional because institutionalized segregation

was inherently unequal.

In the case of Brown versus The Board of Education, the verdict “separate

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