Why Do We Have Separate Schools

“America is right . . . If we are not educated together, we will live in fear of one another. If we are to stay together forever, why should we have separate schools?” said a spokesman in Kenya for the Luo tribe. This represents the fact that America is known to be a united country, although it had to suffer some tough times. For example, the 1950’s was a difficult era for African Americans. Separate but equal was used phrase because African- Americans were supposedly equal due to what the 14th Amendment declared. Nonetheless, people in society and the government did not adhere to this law because racial segregation in public schools and other facilities was still taking place. In Topeka, Kansas, and other states, schools were segregated
Each day, Linda Brown and her sister had to walk through a dangerous railroad switchyard to get to the bus stop for the ride to their all-black elementary school. There was a

school closer to the Brown's house, but it only accepted white students. The Brown family believed that the segregated school system violated the Fourteenth Amendment and took their case to court. Oliver Brown decided to start the case in the year 1951. They argued from December 9-11, 1952 and reargued during December 7-9, 1953. This is the conflict of the case because all humans deserve the right to get an excellent education, no matter their race. All people born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. This caused Oliver Brown to fight for African Americans rights, creating the Brown v. Board of Education court
For some it started the Civil Rights Movement, and for others it represented the fall of segregation. Its impact in the United States was powerful for most of the African Americans because their children, or themselves were finally able to attend to better schools. The conflict was very much a success because not immediately after the case, but eventually, after fighting for their rights for a long period of time (more than a decade), African Americans were finally treated equally. Oliver Brown, the man who started the case, became an important historical figure for education. The short term impacts that the Brown v. Education case had was that there was some mixed feelings to the desegregation of schools by white and black people alike. White people were either on one side or the other. African Americans, overall, felt it was a good thing, but some felt that saying black children weren't getting a good education was saying something bad about African American teachers. The majority of black teachers were now out of work. On the other hand, some African Americans, felt that the desegregation was a bad thing because it was only schools that were desegregated, nowhere else. The effects of the desegregation didn't happen very quickly. It seemed not to be happening at all. Since it was only schools that were desegregated, black