Desegregation In The 1950's

A time of racism, separation and inequality was brought upon the innocent people as a daily issue throughout the United States. People were separated and treated unequally in the start of the early 1900’s to mid 1950’s due to the color of their skin. While the 1950 racial discrimination disrupted many in society, the Brown vs. Board of Education case desired the respect and equality for all the separations and rejections of colored children in public schools. Many negroes, who grew up in the 1950’s, were resentfully rejected from white based schools simply because of their race (Brown 1). One of these negroes was a girl named Linda Brown. It was mandatory for Linda to walk across railroad tracks, even in the cold, and take buses to get to the opposite side of town to attend her elementary school. Despite the effort and distance traveled, there was an elementary school as close as 4 blocks from where the Brown Family lived (Interview 1). Not only did schools have segregational policies, but it also occurred throughout neighborhoods and transportation. Most communities kept people separated, and when white people had a ruling over seats, it left the colored men, women, and children standing at the back of buses through the Jim Crow Laws. The Jim

The desegregation throughout the United States of America did not fully come into effect until the 1664 Civil Rights Act, which completely ended all types of segregation in the nation. The Brown vs. Board of Education case was issued in 1954 but only affected public schools in the southern area of the country (Lutz 6). According to concluding research statistics, more than 46% of colored children in the south were attending white schools in the early 1900s (Brown