Brown vs. The Board of Education was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, by declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities.
But in class we discussed something very interesting. Did this ruling change the people's attitudes towards African-Americans or did it just change the school. Our class came to the conclusion that people didn't change just the school's rules. After the integration of schools, many parents pulled there children from public schools and enrolled then in a private academy. so public schools ended up closeing.
Here is a map of states regarding school separation.
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Public schools didn't close - they became most filled with minorities. The white students now attended private, elite schools that economically was out of the black families budget.
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