Brown V. Board Of Education Case Study

Linda Brown attended third grade in Topeka, Kansas, she traveled over an hour to go to a school reserved for blacks. Her father tried to enroll her in a nearer school, but she was rejected for being the wrong race. With the N.A.A.C.P.'s help, Oliver Brown sued the Board of Education. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the Browns' favor. Brown v. Board of Education started the civil rights movement, and began a slow but steady process of dismantling legal segregation. The following year, African Americans in Alabama were inspired to lead a boycott of Montgomery's segregated buses, which ended with blacks being allowed to ride in the front of the bus. A few years later, protesters began lunch counter sit-ins that led to federal civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations. I never thought segregation was still in our schools today. I was very surprised in the articles I …show more content…
Board of Education decision schools are increasingly segregated by race and class according to new findings from the Congress. The U.S. Government Accountability Office known as the GAO investigators found that from the 2000-2001 to the 2013-2014 school year, both the percentage of K-12 public schools in high-poverty and the percentage comprised of mostly African-American or Hispanic students grew significantly, from 7,009 schools to 15,089 schools. The percentage of all schools with so called racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9% to 16% (Toppo, 2016.) The investigators found that Hispanic students tend to be triple segregated by race, economics and language. The Civil Rights Project at UCLA stated that even as the number of minority students in U.S. public schools has grown over the past three decades, diversity has taken a hit in many schools. The percentage of segregated schools, in which 90% or more of students are minorities, grew since 1988 from 5.7% to 18.4%. (Toppo,