Brown vs Board of Education
By: Dylan Minshew
The Ruling of Brown Vs Board of Education
How the ruling affects African Americans educational opportunities
Leandro vs North Carolina
The Ruling of Leandro vs North Carolina
How the ruling affects African Americans educational opportunities
The NAACP fought to end “separate but equal” schools several decades ago,
not just to seat black children beside white children, even though that is a good thing. It is also a mandate of the U.S. Constitution. We fought because “separate but equal” produced systemic inequities in teacher pay, school curriculum, textbooks, transportation, and other opportunities.
Swann vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
The ruling of Swann vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
How the ruling affects African Americans educational opportunities
"The African american struggle for desegregation," observes Gary Orfield, co-director at the Harvard Civil Rights Project and among the nation's leading experts on desegregation, "did not arise because anyone believed that there was something magical about sitting next to whites in a classroom. It was, however, based on a belief that the dominant group would keep control of the most successful schools and that the only way to get full range of opportunities for a minority child was to get access to those schools."