Black Schools Vs White Schools Essay

When Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, white supremacy began immediately once associating with the Native Americans. After the Civil War, the XIII, IV, and XV Amendments brought about the phrase “Separate but equal.” The separate part was true, but the equal part, far from equal. Black schools were hardly schools, moreso one room buildings. Whereas white schools were luxurious and had multiple rooms that included human necessities like a water fountain, bathrooms, etc (Telgen, Diane). Despite the negative impacts immediately following the Brown V. Board of Education case, there has been many long term positive effects that the case brought as well. After the case was settled, and the Supreme Court ruled to integrate schools because it violated the Constitution, and the XIV Amendment, not many Americans, especially southerners, followed through with the requirements. In 1957, residents of Little Rock, Arkansas went to extremes to keep colored students out of their school. Mobs of parents, students, and community members surrounded the school and blocked the entrance from the colored students. The angry community members would follow …show more content…
A school in ____ was closed because a colored boy was taking a white girl to a dance. The parents and community members were accepting of integration, but once mixed race relations comes about, not so much. The school was going to reopen, but once word of the plan went public, mobs arrived in front of the school to protest the reopening, and the school remained closed (Telgen, Diane). Many southern attorneys were worried about public schooling being abolished due to many southern public schools closing from opposing desegregation (Telgen, Diane). It was stated in Diane Telgen’s novel “Brown V. Board of Education” that it was their gravest fear that “public schools would be abolished.” Sounds more like their gravest fear was integrating