How do you think the Supreme Court decision in Brown has affected your life?

The answer to this question is going to vary from person to person, but there are some general effects of the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 that affect most Americans today. For starters, this decision led to more educational opportunities for African American students. With more access to better schools, African American students could receive a better education overall. It has also led to a more diverse workforce. Also, thanks to school integration, more young people have been exposed to peers of other races, hopefully helping to combat racism overall.
Unfortunately, the aftershocks of Brown v. Board have not all been positive. Many white communities responded with attempts to limit the effects of the decision. They sent their children to private schools or moved out of their old neighborhoods altogether. In some areas, this led to greater segregation than before and has reshaped the demography of major metropolitan areas. Some school districts dragged their feet in implementing desegregation and had to be forcefully integrated through court orders and bussing. Brown v. Board has also impacted the diversity of educators. When schools were segregated, African American schools were staffed with African American teachers. When schools were desegregated, many of these teachers lost their jobs. Today, there is a great lack of minority teachers, even in school districts with mostly minority students.
If you consider all these effects of the Brown v. Board decision, both good and bad, you can likely see which ones have affected your life the most.
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In 1954, Brown versus the Board of Education transformed the United States educational system by outlawing racial segregation. For many students, this meant a more racially diverse classroom.
As a professor, this affected me by causing my students to be more diverse, including people from a wide range of ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. This meant that my teaching had to address the diversity of my student body, including religious diversity and traditions. It also affected curriculum in that students of diverse backgrounds respond to a more multicultural syllabus. For example, writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, who were not taught when I was a student, are now standard authors. World literature courses now include African and Indian and Latin American authors rather than focusing on Europe.


In 1954, Brown versus the Board of Education overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine of education enshrined in an earlier Supreme Court decision called Plessy versus Ferguson. Brown ended the legal racial segregation of schools. Black students now had the right to go to white schools.
Unfortunately, however, that decision has had little impact on the lives of most Americans, including me. After the Supreme Court overturned busing, in which the government tried to racially mix schools by busing students out of their school districts, patterns of segregation reemerged. With more economic resources, white families simply moved to school districts that most black families couldn't afford. Some school districts tried to counter this with magnet schools that offered special features to attract families across racial lines, but these schools have had limited success. Schools in the U.S remain largely racially segregated, and educational resources tend to flow into the well-to-do white school districts.

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