Segregation History

Introduction

United States school systems have has a history of segregation. This segregation began with the passing of Jim Crow laws in the south in the late 1800’s. The influence of this practice was at first the slave culture of the southern states, and later was manifest as residential segregation and school choice programs. There were also many Supreme Court rulings which failed to overturn implement segregation which allowed for the practice to continue to flourish. Although we have seen social improvements in our society in the past 50 years we can still see that many citizens of the United States are still placed at a disadvantage due to their class and race. In this paper we will examine the history of segregation practices and

Furthermore, most of the supporters of Mexican American segregation were those in the state and local legislation which wanted separate creation of schools and their sustainment. However a majority of laws that instituted segregation in the states were explicitly targeted towards African Americans, and organization such as the NAACP were forced to challenging these policies at schools for which the segregation was targeted specifically at black students, when Mexican Americans had already had their presence

Since the two factors went in different directions at the same time it seems that the change in residential locations is not the sole cause for segregation of schools. However the study found that in 1990 schools showed less segregation than neighborhoods, which is an indicator that during this time period local legislation or policies were instrumental in lowering the effects of residence based segregation however, in 2000 is seemed that public policies were no longer being instituted as commonplace as before leading to increasing correlation between residential segregation and school segregation. This is supported by a study done in 2013 which showed that school segregation increased over the decade of 2000 to 2010