Educational Equality: Brown Vs. Board Children In Black Schools

[Abbie Ramos ]
[Educational equality]

In Montgomery county, there was a lot of segregation within schools. Neighborhoods were separated by race which led schools to also be divided between black children, and white children. Even if there were “equal opportunities” in the schools, they wouldn’t be equal until black and white children could share the same building, materials, and teachers. After the ruling in Brown v. Board, black students finally received more schools and better opportunities to join integrated schools; but this did not stop discrimination from anti-integration supporters.
Before the ruling in Brown vs. Board kids in black schools were treated way differently than kids in white schools. Not only did they have small one-room

Instead of getting new materials like white schools, they got handed down books and supplies from the white schools. Aside from supplies, they got less equipment like playgrounds, and their buses were beaten up and old. The spending rates for black students were also dramatically lower with “every dollar spent on a white child only 24 cents was allotted for a black student” (National Museum of American History). Aside from the poor treatment, they also didn’t have many schools and a lot of overcrowding. “The overcrowding issue was enough to get the attention of the school board, and in the early 1950s, the county closed the old one-room schoolhouses and built

board ruling, black students did receive integrated schools but black students were still treated fairly differently. In the letter from Daisy Bates, sent to Roy Walkins, she gives many examples of the inequalities of how black kids are being treated in their schools. “The treatment of the children had been getting steadily worse for the last two weeks in the form of kicking, spitting, and general abuse…we pointed out that a three-day suspension given Hugh Williams for a sneak attack perpetrated on one the [Black] boys which knocked him out and required a doctor’s attention, was not sufficient punishment” (Daisy Bates). In this letter, Bates explains that the children from the Little Rock Nine are getting very mistreated. They are beaten and as a result of this, the kid doing the action does not receive proper punishment. Even 10 years after the brown vs. board ruling, students in New York were still protesting for inequality. “On Feb. 3, 1964, more than 460,000 students, predominantly black and Puerto Rican, stayed out of school to protest educational inequality and school segregation in the Big Apple” (Salon.com article & boycott flier). The ruling did fix segregation in the schools but inequality still occurred. Due to this, many students didn’t go to school to protest. Even after the boycott, people were still fighting for school zoning and segregation. After the ruling, though there was something that could’ve been done about the mistreatment of