Brown V. Board Of Education Argumentative Essay

In the past, schools have been racially segregated due to animosity and discrimination against African Americans, but over time the process of desegregating schools have occurred to ensure better education and equality among the races. The Fourteenth Amendment, which states that no state shall deprive anyone of either “due process of law” or “equal protection of the law” was passed to guarantee blacks and whites equal representation under the law. Unfortunately, the rights of African Americans continued to be denied furthering mistreatment and segregation in many places including schools. Blacks were denied the access to a proper education, leading to an intellectual gap between themselves and whites who were dominantly more

intelligent. The ongoing fight to integrate segregated schools remained consistent throughout laws and protest, however laws to make sure blacks and whites did not attend the same schools had also been implemented.
In 1954, the Brown v.

Board of Education Supreme Court case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and whites to be unconstitutional. The law was a complete violation of the 14th amendment and simply would create more equality between the races if reversed. Brown itself was not a single case, but rather a coordinated group of five lawsuits against schools districts in Kansas Nebraska, South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and the District of Columbia . The Brown vs Board of Education case persuaded all nine justices to overturn the “separate but equal” doctrine that was endorsed in the Plessy V. Ferguson decision. To establish something as separate but equal is just hypocritical and doesn’t solve the fact that blacks and whites would continue to be divided. Ultimately, separate cannot be equal, because individuals are not self-reliant and independent but deeply established as social beings. The process of desegregating schools was a slow procedure, but in majority places it worked. In “Brown and Black White Achievement” there are folks who have agreed that the Brown v. Board of education has amounted to nothing and was a complete failure, on the other hand there are those who disagree. The Black-White achievement shrank very little even in school districts that were well-desegregated for a

while.
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students who attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rocks, Arkansas.

This event occurred three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Evidently schools continued to disobey the law by prohibiting African American from attending their schools, even though it was illegal to do so. Governor Faubus organized the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the 9 black students from entering the school. The students were harassed by a white mob who was also opposed to them entering. In response to the students not being able to go into the school, Thurgood Marshall along with a team of NAACP lawyers were able to get the federal court to ban the governor from hindering the students’ entry into the school. Unfortunately once the students were finally able to enter the school, mob violence continued to transpire and the students were sent home. Luckily Eisenhower ordered troops to protect the students for the remainder of the year. In “It Was a Form of Creativity, Our going to Central” one of the Little Rock Nine Students shares her experience in an interview about what she along what other 8 students experienced when they desegregated Central High School. In the interview, she says “The little Rock Nine suffered incredible trauma and impacts to their lives that they shouldn’t have suffered, rather

justice and equity”. She shares her opinion on how you can’t keep ignoring the issues of the past, such as racism and hostility towards blacks, it’s better to address it.
Very much similar to the story of the little rock nine is the story of Ruby Bridges and her admittance into a segregated school. Ruby Bridges became the first African American in the south to integrate William Frantz elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana. Many southern states were strongly against the integration of African Americans and whites into the same school and did whatever possible to stop it from happening. Ruby’s parents shared mixed views on her attending an all-white school—her father feared whether or not his daughter would be safe while her mother wanted her to have the educational opportunities that her parents were denied. Louisiana was ordered to desegregate and the school district decided to create entrance exams for African American students to see whether they could compete academically at the all-white school, which Ruby along with 5 other students passed the exams.
The Civil Rights Movement played a vital role in desegregation whether in or out of school. After the first 5 years of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 being passed with the federal government threatening and sometimes using fund termination enforcement provisions (i.e., cutting off federal funding to school districts that failed to comply with the law), more substantial progress was made toward desegregating schools. The number of African Americans attending schools in the south began to increase demonstrating how efficient the process of desegregation had become. By the 1970s, the South had become the nation's most integrated region.
The Boston Busing Crisis was a time in which courts allowed Boston Public Schools to desegregate through a system of busing students. Boston School Committee was found guilty of unconstitutional school segregation and nearly 17,000 students were ordered to be transferred by bus to increase the racial integration of Boston’s school. Predominantly white-schools tended to be far better than schools that were composed of majority black students. Primarily black schools were overcrowded and staffed by less experienced teachers while, all-white schools were the complete opposite. Parents wanted a better education for their kids, therefore integrating schools allowed for educational equality for all races. Busing was proved to work especially in the south where school districts are often countywide and include both central cities and suburbs.
Private schools were used as safe havens for the southern whites to escape the effects of the impending and ongoing desegregation mandates. Private School enrollment in the south had rose after the Supreme Court ruled against the segregation of higher education schools in the south. Private schools in the South were established, expanded, and supported to preserve the Southern tradition of racial segregation in the face of the federal courts’ dismantling of “separate but equal.” Private schools appeared to bring back the issue if school segregation, being composed of more white students than any other race. Throughout time, whites have been better financially stable than blacks for say, which is why they were able to afford the cost of sending their kids to private schools, were they received the best education possible. Once again, blacks and whites were separated in schools. From 1950 to 1965 private school enrollment grew at unprecedented rates all over the nation, with the South having the largest growth.