Civil Rights Vs Education
Civil rights which mean the basic right to be free from unequal treatment, like race, gender, disability. Civil rights are protections by the government. From 1896 until the end of World War II, the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause was not violated by racial distinction as long as the facilities were equal. Brown v. Board of Education marked the beginning of a difficult battle for equal protection in education, employment, housing, voting, and other areas of social and economic activity. In the South, ten years after Brown, fewer than 1 percent of black children in the South were attending schools with whites. Organized civil rights groups launched massive direct action to against this, the organization