Brown V Board Of Education In 1954

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Brown v. Board of Education. This was a landmark case about the mistreatment of African-American and other minority educators. Brown v. Board of Education was predominantly about racial segregation and housing boundaries. African-American students were not able to attend school with Caucasian students. Moreover, many Caucasians did not want to live by African-American or other people of color and there were laws in place to prevent such desegregation. For example, the Jim Crow Law did not allow Blacks and Whites to marry each other; business owners had to keep their Black and White clienteles separate; and they were not allowed to rent or purchase homes in the same community without it being

They wanted to give their students the same educational opportunities as Caucasian students. Teachers before the Brown v. Broad of Education era were highly respected among their students and their fellow peers. They were the leaders and ministers in their communities. According to Hawkins (1994) who estimates that in 1954, over 82,000 African-American teachers in the United States provided instruction for a Black student population numbering around two million. Within a span of ten years, almost 40,000 African-American teachers and administrators lost their jobs through the implementation of the Brown decision (Ethridge, 1979; Holmes, 1990, Perry, Bonnie J., 2008). After losing their jobs as educators and administrators, many of the African-American women became maids and the African-American men who were once administrators and principals became custodial workers and garbage collectors. These transitions effected how they were viewed in their communities throughout the United States. They lost their status as respected leaders and their voice within the communities (Tillman, 2004). These losses were included in Division G’s