Segregation in the US: Difference between revisions
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[https://www.oah.org/tah/february-3/the-troubled-history-of-american-education-after-the-brown-decision/ by OAH] | [https://www.oah.org/tah/february-3/the-troubled-history-of-american-education-after-the-brown-decision/ by OAH] | ||
On May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision that racial segregation in the public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment, it sparked national reactions ranging from elation to rage. As some Americans celebrated this important ruling and its impact on democracy, their early belief in Brown’s power to eliminate racial inequities in the public schools now reflects a hopeful naiveté and the beginning of a decades-long struggle to fulfill its promise. | On May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision that racial segregation in the public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment, it sparked national reactions ranging from elation to rage. As some Americans celebrated this important ruling and its impact on democracy, their early belief in Brown’s power to eliminate racial inequities in the public schools now reflects a hopeful naiveté and the beginning of a decades-long struggle to fulfill its promise. | ||
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[https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/segregation/ by Edward A. Hatfield 1/7/07 New Georgia ENCYCLOPEDIA] | |||
Beginning in the 1890s, Georgia and other southern states passed a wide variety of Jim Crow laws that mandated racial segregation or separation in public facilities and effectively codified the region’s tradition of white supremacy. | |||
