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BCRI Online Forum
In your opinion, what has been the legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court's historic 1954 decision on segregated public schooling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
Michael K. Edger, St. Louis, Missouri, September 30, 2004: The legacy of Brown is bittersweet. At the time of Brown the country was still in the slipping grips of segregation in the south and the beginnings of a movement for civil rights was emerging. Brown, and then Rosa Parks gave the movement momentum it needed to strive on against the backlash of a eroding White segregation. But fifty years later like all struggles it continues, and the movement has slowed to a crawl worst even; stalled. Some would say "what movement" everything is fine now and America is a gentler, happier place in the eyes of most Americans. Now, in a time of charter schools, private companies controlling, and managing public schools looking for the bottom line, the false hopes of 'No Child Left Behind" some people can say with surety that schools are more segregated now than in times of Brown. Just ask the children here in St. Louis.
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