In the past decades, there has been different cases and issues about discrimination and segregation of people with color which has constituted to the creation of different organizations to assist in the elimination of this act. This issue of segregation has also resulted to countless human right movements where some were successful and other were tragic. In the United States of America, the African Americans are been segregated by the white people. This has been a concern for decades. As a result, many problems are been faced by the African-Americans such as poverty and injustice. Specifically, the problem of education and how segregation has grown in the school system for people of color. In the past, many white people had opinions that schools
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Racial segregation can be said to be the restriction of certain areas of residence or to separate institutions, for example, schools and facilities, on the basis of skin color. This practice is present in our environment today, majority school in America are being separated from people of color. According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, 72 percent White, 9 percent Black, 5 percent Asian, 1 percent Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and 1 percent American Indian/Alaska Native” (U.S Department of Education). Regardless, most public schools in America experienced an intense transformation in the second half of the 20th century. This was incited by the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate schools for black people and white students are “inherently unequal”. This decision instigated schools to be integrated to a degree that was unknown in the nation’s past. This can be redirected to a game of reframe which is the “power of positive perception”. According to Getting Past No, “You have the power of positive perceptive, the ability to put a problem-solving frame around whatever the other side says”(Ury 80). In this case, the Supreme Court had the power to render decision which changed then the current situation that was in existence, to a fully integrated school …show more content…
Plessy v. J.H. Ferguson case. This is to say the court decision was responsible for the segregation because the Supreme Court in 1896 detailed, “Separate but equal facilities did not violate the 14th Amendment” (Constitutional Right Foundation). Due to this decision, segregation was still in existence and people had to fight it. This led to the creation of the -The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. The NAACP began the struggle to eliminate racial discrimination and segregation. However, this was terminated in the Supreme Court 's landmark decision in 1954. Also in trying to eradicate segregation, the “direct action” method was adopted by Martin Luther King for the goal eliminating racial segregation. According to Martin Luther King, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation” (Barash 227). Regardless of the penalties, effort from the different segregation movement lead by Martin Luther King and so on was to eradicate discrimination and segregation which was and is the major
Racial segregation can be said to be the restriction of certain areas of residence or to separate institutions, for example, schools and facilities, on the basis of skin color. This practice is present in our environment today, majority school in America are being separated from people of color. According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, 72 percent White, 9 percent Black, 5 percent Asian, 1 percent Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and 1 percent American Indian/Alaska Native” (U.S Department of Education). Regardless, most public schools in America experienced an intense transformation in the second half of the 20th century. This was incited by the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate schools for black people and white students are “inherently unequal”. This decision instigated schools to be integrated to a degree that was unknown in the nation’s past. This can be redirected to a game of reframe which is the “power of positive perception”. According to Getting Past No, “You have the power of positive perceptive, the ability to put a problem-solving frame around whatever the other side says”(Ury 80). In this case, the Supreme Court had the power to render decision which changed then the current situation that was in existence, to a fully integrated school …show more content…
Plessy v. J.H. Ferguson case. This is to say the court decision was responsible for the segregation because the Supreme Court in 1896 detailed, “Separate but equal facilities did not violate the 14th Amendment” (Constitutional Right Foundation). Due to this decision, segregation was still in existence and people had to fight it. This led to the creation of the -The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. The NAACP began the struggle to eliminate racial discrimination and segregation. However, this was terminated in the Supreme Court 's landmark decision in 1954. Also in trying to eradicate segregation, the “direct action” method was adopted by Martin Luther King for the goal eliminating racial segregation. According to Martin Luther King, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation” (Barash 227). Regardless of the penalties, effort from the different segregation movement lead by Martin Luther King and so on was to eradicate discrimination and segregation which was and is the major