Segregation of the Education System

  From the 1950s all the way to the 1960s most schools within the education system faced segregation. This was mostly due to the creation of the Jim Crow laws in the 50s which limited the education of the colored or "Non-White" population. This became a major problem as African Americans, Mexicans/Hispanics and people of other decent could not gain an education to live a successful life in america. Primarily, African Americans would be separated from their white counterparts within a school, eating in a separate lunch room, going to separate bathrooms and in most cases siting at the back of a school bus. Most would have thought with the abolishing of slavery we would have been more accepting of colored people in schools as they too are American Citizens, this was proven wrong during that time.

  In schools, Colored students had to be taught by colored teachers with the teachers having low education themselves. Colored students could not even sit in the same table as whites during lunch or relaxation time. Most Colored Students were forced use second hand supply's due to the low income of family's. Most politicians and school boards argued that the current system was "Good the way it is" with most of the southern states agreeing to this. So what actions did the colored community take against this educational system? It was fought in a court case "Brown V Board of Education of Topeka" in 1954 which led to the Supreme Court giving the verdict of segregation in schools being unconstitutional. 

 How much has changed in our time, do we still face segregation within our own schools or discrimination? Yes, there are some cases as an article by Richard Rothstein explains "Today, many black children still attend schools in racially and economically isolated neighborhoods, while their families still reside in lonely islands of poverty:". Now you must ask yourself, are ani-discrimination/segregation's laws that effective within schools today? It all starts with the people, we can all make a change, we just have to learn to be more accepting.