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Brown V Board Of Education Essay

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The fight for desegregation has been a continuous fight for African Americans ever since their freedom in the 1860s. In the early 20th century, prejudice against African Americans skyrocketed with an early introduction to Jim Crow laws being forced upon African Americans forcing them to be segregated. After many years, the African American people were fed up and challenged one such Jim Crow law that forced schools to be segregated, and this court case was Brown v Board of Education. This case ruled that segregation at school was unconstitutional, and that schools shouldn’t be segregated. The Brown decision failed to desegregate and to improve the lives of African Americans by limiting education and social standards. There has not been a single …show more content…

White schools had better trained teachers and new technology that helped the students gave them an advantage over the all black schools. Black schools were mostly run down, even after the Brown v Board of Education decision. Even after the Jim Crow education system being abolished, it perpetuated the black ghettos by most of their prior generations being taught to have low level jobs and education never mattered. However, newer generations have a better education than their prior generations and those who decide to stay in the ghettos, are misfortunate to have a schooling system that is heavily underfunded than one that is all …show more content…

With race reform, they can help improve the equality between both whites and African Americans when it comes to education, especially funding for education. It would also help those who live in ghettos that have lived with the post effects of the Jim Crow laws, and it would give them a voice. Race reform would also have problems, it would force schools to have a diverse demographic which some cannot fill, and the overall funding would drop due to them having to fund them all. Race reform would be great for everyone involved, both students and adults, and it will help the countless generations that will need it in the

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