Essay On Racial Discrimination In Education

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Racial discrimination has been an ongoing issue in the U.S. education system and there has been little done to change this since the desegregation of schools. Since day one the United States educational system has been unbalanced and no one has been able to attain equal learning with their other racial counterparts for a number of reasons such as racial discrimination. The problem isn’t necessarily prominent in one institution in particular, but rather the entire system a whole. The level of education received is not based on academic ability, but more so on economic standing and racial demographics.
In the past, African Americans and Caucasians weren’t allowed to access the same public facilities, let alone attend the same schools.Schools …show more content…

In a case called Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson, the supreme court created what became known as the, “separate but equal” doctrine. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities and the legality of Jim Crow laws and other forms of racial discrimination as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality. Instead of providing separate but equal treatment for black and white Americans, the verdict just further perpetuated inferiority of blacks in America. Before Brown V. Board there was the case of Cumming v. Richmond Georgia County Board of Education in 1899 where the Court refused to issue an injunction preventing a school board from spending tax money on a white high school when the same school board voted to close down a black high school for financial reasons.
In brown v. Board the courts ruled that the Plessy decision was unconstitutional when it came to education because the segregation of students in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Consequently, this ruling received a lot of backlash and opposition. In the February and March of 1956, the United States Congress wrote the southern manifesto in opposition to racial integration of public facilities with the entire purpose of the document being to specifically to counter the