Segregation++of+Black+Americans+and+Whites

=Segregation=

In 1883 the [|Civil Rights Act of 1875], which gave equal rights for blacks in public places, was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Segregation for African Americans in United States school systems is said to have begun shortly after the ruling in the late 1890's with the installment of the "[|Jim Crow Laws]" These laws state that African Americans could not attend caucasion classrooms and vice versa. By 1910 this form of segregation was fully in place in each state of the former Confederacy. Until the 1950's segregation was a regular practice in schools under the [|Seperate but Equal] doctrine which stated that seperate facilities for blacks and whites was constitutional as long as they were equal. But in 1954 the famous [|Brown vs. Board of Education] case pursuaded the supreme court that "seperate but equal" had no place in public education. This was a huge step in desegregation. Although the supreme court had ruled segregation illegal in 1954 it would be three years until nine african american students would attend the highschool of [|Little Rock, Arkansas], being the first African American students to attend a previously segregated school. And in May Ernest Green would be the first African American to graduate from Little Rock High.

What we believed before...
The belief was that African Americans were lower than caucasions and thus not worthy of even being in the same classroom or even taught in the earlier years of American history. This was the belief since when America was being colonized, slaves were being brought over to the United States and their freedoms stripped. Even after the civil war African Americans were being thought of as lower than whites. [|A Journey from Slavery to Freedom.]

What we believed after...
The main belief after the 1950's was that everyone should be given equal rights inside the classroom. There shouldn't be segregated classrooms and all students, no matter the race, should be able to work together to achieve higher learning. Also we believed that no law should be passed that would create a segregated scenario and degrade people in any way.

How do we still act that we believe the old belief?
Although we had taken a very big step towards desegregating schools there have been some cases of segregation left in the school systems. For example, in the trial of [|Morgan vs. Hennigan] 1974, the Boston school committee was accused of racial segregation. It was ruled that the school board was in fact “knowingly carrying out a systematic program of segregation affecting all of the city’s students, teachers and school facilities.” It wouldn't be until 1994 when the District Court prohibited all practices of racial segregation in Boston. So from this example we can see that there are still a few flaws in the system, but I think it's safe to say that we have come a long ways from what the system used to be like.