Segregation In Schools Pros And Cons

“Black or White” is a common expression asked at the beginning of every chess game. Now go back in time to when your perceived human rights wholly depended on that status of your pigmentation and oblivious to all other criteria. What do you choose, black or white? This was the case some sixty, some odd years ago and to this day still has some of the same challenges that were argued decades before. Segregation has been a tool utilized often by old white supremacists in order to maintain any semblance of “historical hierarchy” within the US and more specifically the south. To the people of today it can be easy to peer back into history during this time and to judge the situation based on our current privileges. However, these privileges …show more content…
This question would force the United States Supreme court to rethink decades of societal norms regarding segregation and decide whether the segregated learning institutions are in fact equal and as a result, ethical. After heated debates presented by both sides of the argument the court’s ruling in the matter was unanimous, which must have surprised the visibly divided nation. Every supreme court justice, regardless of their political affiliation, could objectively review the constitution and see that the segregated facilitates were inherently unequal in nature and as a result they were unethical. It’s important to highlight the importance of the unanimous decision because the United states was visibly divided over the nature of this case.
Time is the only remedy to a plethora of solutions and it also happens to be the solution to the problem of segregation. It would end up taking the better part of a decade to actually enforce the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education. Even though the court had viewed society’s actions as unconstitutional, the mere acknowledgement of this wrongdoing was not enough to get the states to listen and abide by the court’s ruling. The court saw segregation as unconstitutional but for a multitude of southern states, they viewed it as the federal government merely impeding …show more content…
After watching the documentary Eyes on the Prize however, I was able to view how much tension was actually palpable in an environment that was actively desegregating the first originally all white school in Little Rock Arkansas. The white citizens of Little Rock protested to the point where they were on the verge of becoming an irate mob and even went as far as to demand that one of the black teenagers should be lynched in order to quell the unrest. This resulted in the President of the United States intervening and utilizing the United States Army as a means to ensure the protection of the Little Rock nine. The use of military presence in order to effectively carryout the court decision just goes to show how much hostility surrounded the topic of