DBQ Essay: Brown V. Board Of Education

Racial tensions in the south were stronger than ever due to the brown v board of education court case stating that segregated school was unconstitutional(the belief of white supremacy). The south reacted to the brown v board of education case through massive resistance where they allowed no whites to attend integrated schools, forced school boards to assign blacks and whites to different schools, and closed down schools to turn them private to whites.(Doc W)During the 1950s blacks were oppressed similarly to antebellum America except that they were not slaves they were now seen as another race. African Americans couldn’t talk or interact with any white person in any way and if they did they would be killed either by lynching or murdering, which most of the times were kept …show more content…
Buses were now empty and the houses of the civil rights leaders such as MLK, and Ed Nixon were bombed, snipers tended to shoot inside buses, and churches were bombed.(Montgomery bus boycott) In the end, the boycott was deemed successful, by passing a court case which ruled the bus segregation was unconstitutional. Times were not great for blacks despite African Americans being involved in desegregated units during ww2, and helping win the war. This is further strengthened through Langston Hughes “Dream Deferred” poem, where he reflects the mood of all African Americans after world war 2. He explains how even though African Americans were promised equality, freedom, and nondiscrimination through paper, those dreams never came true.(Doc T). If a dream is deferred Langston questions it by saying if “it explodes”, (Doc T) showing how violence can occur if African Americans aren’t granted their freedom. The southern racial hatred towards African Americans was so extreme and it was documented John Howard griffin turned himself black in order to experience the oppression. As