Educational Desegregation

Many thinkers at the time identified the need to desegregate the educational system. This would not only mean that all children would have equal opportunities in education but to ensure that segregation was not being entrenched in these children's minds. This ideological belief was very common at time,  Kenneth and Mamie Clark's 'doll test' is evident of this.

Most attempts towards desegregation in education were through the NAACP using the legal system and the actions of the supreme court but people like James Meredith remain paramount in working towards equal education. This disparity had been upheld by the law around since in the late 1890s. Segregation was legally permissible under the 'separate but equal' doctrine which had been first introduced in the 1896 case of 'Plessy versus Ferguson' but it had been extended to education in 1899 in the '******* versus the Board of Education' case

This disparity had been upheld by the law around since in the late 1890s. Segregation was legally permissable under the 'separate but equal' doctrine which had been first introduced in the 1896 case of 'Plessy versus Ferguson' but it had been extended to education in 1899 in the '******* versus the Board of Education' case

The 'Brown versus Board of Education' case, 1954

On 17 May 1954, the Supreme Court declared separate but equal educational facilities unconstitutional, in 9-0 unanimous decision.

The case had been brought to the Supreme Court by the NAACP legal team, headed by Thurgood Marshall, in 1953. It was the culmination of a series of cases which had been brought before the Court since 1945. For instance, in the 'Sweatt versus Painter' case in 1950, the Court had already demanded a $3 million upgrading of the African-American Prairie View University in Texas, because its facilities were inferior to those of white colleges in the state.

What was also significant about the Brown case was the…