The Importance Of Segregation In Schools

In his article, “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid”, Jonathan Kozol points out, whether we are aware or not, how American public schools are segregated. Schools that were segregated twenty-five to thirty years ago are still segregated, and schools that had been integrated are now re-segregating. The achievement gap between black and white students, after narrowing for a few decades, started to widen once again in the early 1990s when federal courts got rid of the mandates of the Brown decision and schools were no longer required to integrate.

Why was segregation even a thing in the first place. I hate the thought of segregation because the people in my surroundings are so diverse and it’s awesome. Oh gosh, here comes the ranting!

In her article on school segregation, Hannah-Jones describes how the school district which Ferguson resident Michael Brown graduated from, ranked last in overall performance for Missouri schools. The death of Michael Brown in August 2014 spurred riots not only in St. Louis, but also in other cities nationwide. Hannah-Jones states how many St. Louis area school districts have “returned to the world of separate and unequal”, which was widespread before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision. Black and white children in the St. Louis region are educationally divided,

This essay will be on the Segregation in Modern American Schools, how it affects the students, why it occurs, and the strides need to integrate. I picked this topic because I came from a town that was predominantly white. Therefore my school was predominantly white as well. I have always wondered if coming from this type of school has hindered my ability to interact with people of a different race, culture, or background. I also thought of how my education would have been different if I had been taught at a more diverse school. I would have learned more about other types of people not only from my teachers, but from my peers. I have always been interested in this topic and I think it affects more people than we think. Of course, it affects the students, but it also affects the teacher and the mass public. Culturally segregated schools are hindering learning environments. Black teachers teach at black schools, White teachers teach at white schools, so on and so forth with every race. The public is affected; because the schools in their area are not divers meaning their community is not diverse. Diversity is a catalyst for growth in all people. School and education is a great place to start the

Segregation is the act of discriminating against others because of their race. The act of Segregating is morally wrong. Racism executes appalling feats. This is because it slows down the development of countries, and brings out the worst in people.

With the advancement of thinking in the United States since the Jim Crow era, shouldn’t school segregation be a thing of the past? Well, this is an ongoing epidemic in the United States, and it has a dangerous effect on the youth. School segregation rates are at an all time high, and the main reason for this increase is residential segregation, or segregation of neighborhoods. Although school segregation can be a result of economic policy, housing policies have a greater influence on segregation. Many neighborhoods that are classified as low income, have a negative connotation attached with them. This causes a difference in funding of schools located in those districts, and those students end up paying the price.

In 1982, racial segregation in public schools began over the United States Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson’s, “separate but equal” doctrine, that lasted until the early 1950’s. This precedent legally enabled “separate” facilities for black students and white students as long as they were “equal”. During the turn of the 19th century, the term “Jim Crow” was used to refer to African Americans. This term would later be used as the name of the laws that kept African Americans from public functions and places. It would not be until 1954, that the “separate but equal” doctrine would be changed for good.

The desired integration between minority and majority groups in schools has not been fulfilled. All white schools are no longer allowed to occur since the Brown decision (Hannah, 2014). Therefore, based on racial means, the schools system would be perceived as more balanced. However, apartheid schools, or schools with virtually all non-white groups, have become prominent (Segregation Today, n.d.). Institutions filled with minority races are legal and lead to inequalities between the minority and majority groups in the country. Factors, like poverty, are greatly centered in these schools which detrimentally affect the attendees’ future, as based on findings by a Southern Poverty Law Center (Segregation Today, n.d.). This center specializes in legal advocacy of civil rights and public interest litigations,and therefore, has an immense amount of knowledge on the interbalance between races. Clearly, the Brown v. Board ruling forced integration into white schools but not the same manner for black schools. This, in turn, concentrates poverty into the non-white schools .

I attended private schools in California for the majority of my youth, up until I pleaded with my grandmother to allow me to enroll in public school. Well eventually she surrendered and permitted me to attend school for a year in Memphis, TN where my mom resided. Now my first day of public school in the south was extremely confusing. Other children continuously told me “I talk white” which I had never heard before, so I chalked it up to my California accent. But once my year was up I decided to return to California and I asked my grandmother what they meant by the phrase “I talk white.” She explained to me that the majority race in my school was African Americans who couldn’t relate to how I spoke and that people in the south had a southern

After further research on each parts of the reconstruction, I have concluded that the African Americans did not reach full citizenship for many reasons, but three stood out: Black codes, Sharecropping and Poll taxes. First of all, the Black codes served three purposes and most codes called for the segregation of blacks and whites in public places. The purposes were to limit the rights of freedmen, help planters find workers to replace their slaves and to keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South. Although this helped them on their way it also tore them down. Segregation came with the codes, Black kids had no public school to go to, African Americans right to vote or serve on juries was denied, and work was scarce. Therefore

I grew up in a fairly homogeneous country(at least ninety percent black) where issues related to diversities were not as pronounced or common as they are here in the United States. When I moved to the United States, however, I became part of the minority. As I started connecting with a diverse range of people, I noticed that the assumption has been that a white male is the boss. It has seldom been the case that anyone presumed an African American, a woman, or needless to say an African American woman to be my superior.

The legal battle against segregation began in the 1930s, but the journey to battle segregation in court was to not desegregate schools. Rather, Thurgood Marshall and other NAACP Legal Fund members fought the legal battle as a way for the white man to uphold the Plessy v. Ferguson verdict, not to overturn it. When the Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson with Brown v. Board of Education in 1955, they requested the schools to desegregate schools with all deliberate speed. What this means is that schools should desegregate as quickly as possible so as to not have to deal with fights against white supremacists. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, as while President Eisenhower feels that the federal government is going a little too fast with

Segregation , slavery, abuse what more else can we go through? . Black African Americans often feels like the worst race in the world. We are more than what you see. We are not just ignorant , loud, ghetto and dimensional people. We go through and have been through a lot since the black police killings, and hard livings. We are more than athletics who can jump real high or run really fast. We are more than what you see.

When analyzing black-white school segregation, the trends associated with it can be divided into two periods: 1954 through the 1970s and the 1980s to the present. From 1954 through the 1970s, segregation drastically declined, but this was mainly seen after 1968 when court-ordered desegregation plans took effect. However, while within-district segregation declined, between-district segregation increased. Yet, from the 1980s to the present, the evidence is inconclusive on segregation. It is unclear whether schools are resegregating or progress has been stalled. When sociologists use two different measurements of segregation, exposure, which focuses on the racial composition of a school district, and unevenness, which focuses on the distribution

A- The children are pushing open the door, one child is looking inside the door, and the books are lying on the ground.