Segregation - whether by law or by practice - resulted in an inequitable distribution of resources for African American students, seriously hampering and undermining their academic achievement. Board plaintiffs clearly understood that race was actually a crude proxy for equal access to funding for textbooks, curriculum materials, high-quality programs and updated facilities. Integration has many shortcomings as a path to equitable education. Board to the current social, cultural and educational challenges facing urban school districts today? Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared the unconstitutionality of state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students, paving the way for integration.īut how relevant is the framing of Brown v. This month marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. (Lisa Billings/AP) This article is more than 8 years old. Supreme Court’s seminal desegregation ruling turns 60, we take a look at its legacy in a modern context. The chief council for the plaintiffs was Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first Black Justice appointed to the Supreme Court.As the U.S. The case was then heard by the Supreme Court in 1954, along with other similar cases from around the country, and it became known as Brown v. The original case was tried in a district court and was defeated on the grounds that the Black schools and white schools were sufficiently equal and therefore segregated schooling in the district was protected under the Plessy decision. One of these suits was filed against the board of education in Topeka, Kansas, on behalf of Oliver Brown, a parent of a child who was denied access to white schools in the Topeka school district. In the early 1950s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) brought class action lawsuits against school districts in several states, seeking court orders that would require the districts to allow Black children to attend white schools.
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