Brown V. Board Of Education Case Study

Issues with racism has always been an enormous problem for Americans, ever since the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade in the 1400s. Racism towards African-American slaves was the cause of the United States Civil War. Even after the civil war ended, a century later there were still issues with racism. In the early 1900s, the school systems had major complications with people of different color than white. There were schools created only for the attendance of African Americans as they were schools that only allowed white children. Finally on May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court created the Brown v. Board of Education bill, implying that “state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional” This decision by the Supreme Court marked the end of the “separate but equal” movement and became a motivation for the civil rights movement in the 1950s. With the help of the

Board of Education bill has been decided, there are still contemporary issues dealing with racism in the schools. An article from the Huffington Post, written by Joy Resmovits, goes into great detail in comparing school children of color and school children that are white. The article was published March, 21, 2014, proving how schools were still dealing with racism currently. The articles starts off by openly saying that “Public school students of color get more punishment and less access to veteran teachers than their white peers.” This evidence given is according to surveys released Friday by the U.S. Education Department that include data from every U.S. school district. The article goes on to giving statistics about people of different color are suspended or expelled triple the rate of their white peers. The article explains that students have less access to experienced teachers and most minority students and English language learners are stuck in schools with the most inexperienced