Example Of Affirmative Action

The term “Affirmative Action” was used to describe the action of helping ethnic minorities who suffer from discrimination receive the same job and education benefits that majorities did. The idea of affirmative action was to get rid of the barrier between minorities and majorities and to allow equality throughout the country. This policy actively puts in effort to boost the possibilities for different excluded ethnicities in the United States. Due to America's past of slavery, African Americans were, and are, one of the most discriminated and stereotyped ethnicities in the country. The United State’s old prejudiced ways have affected African Americans mentally,physically, and emotionally, causing them to believe that they were lesser beings when compared to the
Board of Education in 1954. Brown vs. Board of Education was an attempt to end segregation in public schools, allowing children of all races to be taught in the same environment. When Brown vs. Board was brought to the attention of the Supreme Court for the first time,the court was very much divided on the subject. After Supreme Court judge Chief Justice Fred Vinson died he was replaced by Governor of California, Earl Warren who managed to change the views of the rest of the court. This resulted in a unanimous vote stating that segregated public schools were unconstitutional and made African American children feel belittled. It was argued that the idea of “separate but equal” was unlawful, discourteous, and against everything America stood for as a country. "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. . .” (Chief Justice Warren 1). Because of the Southern states’ discriminative ways, the Supreme Court agreed on a slow process of desegregating public schools to avoid an uproar amongst the