Brown V Board Of Education Case

News of the decision in the legal case Brown v. Board of Education shook the country, the decision that ended segregation. However, many resented the decision, doing everything they could to prevent desegregation. Even with the negative reactions toward the Brown case, black people claimed it was a major victory for them. It took several years before most integration in schools took place. It wasn't until many schools were threatened with the loss of their funding or had troops sent to their schools that they opened their doors to black students. Today, schools are still in a sense segregated, but not purposely, because these minorities tend to live in clusters, making schools either have a majority of blacks and Hispanics, or a majority of
Although they did not always enforce integration, they did not try to stop integration like in previous years. This led to many blacks changing the game, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Emmett Till’s case also played a big part in blacks’ rights when Till’s relatives spoke against a white man in court. The Little Rock Nine and many other students and activists received their inspiration from Brown. Eventually black athletes, musicians, and actors stood out because they could finally be accepted. The level of education of black citizens has gone up tremendously since the ruling of Brown, resulting in blacks having higher incomes and higher numbers of home ownership. The original goal of Brown v. the Board of Education was to end segregation; however, it led to so much more that America was not prepared for, and is still ever changing the American society today. Craft Juan Williams’ thesis is supported very well because he shows how much the Brown v. Board of Education case changed America. The government no longer supported the segregation of blacks after the case, and that made many people change the way they thought about black people. It didn’t change at first, but America has come a long way from what it was fifty years ago. Williams’ writing style was very informative, and was sometimes scattered in areas. However, he provided important information that helped support his thesis. He wrote: “Even when a black 14-year-old, Emmit Till, was killed in Mississippi for supposedly whistling as a white woman, there was a new reaction to old racial brutality. One of