How does this happen? In part, as the writer points out "In the last fifteen years, changing demographic trends and housing shifts have forced schools to rework school assignment plans. Earlier this week a county in Mississippi was ordered to "stop the illegal practice of allowing white students to transfer out of their assigned high schools to the county’s only white-majority high school." Seriously, check this out ~ Separate but equal in public accommodation, which had been the long standing rule of law for more than 50 years, was deemed unconstitutional.īrown was decided in 1954 and while it would be naive to suggest this country has reached complete integration, a great deal of progress has been made in many forms of public accommodation including public school integration. The ruling had far reaching implications and fueled the future of the civil rights movement but specifically as it relates to public education, for decades school districts around the country confronted how to comply with what was the new law of the land. Brown was a controversial case when it was decided as, among other things, it did not mandate any particular way by which desegregation was to be achieved as a result of the ruling. Ferguson upholding racial segregation in public accommodations. The plaintiff’s position in Brown challenged the "separate but equal" precedent set in Plessy v. At issue was the constitutionality of state laws allowing for racial segregation based on race in public education. Board of Education cleared the way for public school desegregation and fueled the civil rights movement in modern day America. Often cited as a pivotal point in civil rights, the ruling in Brown v.
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