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70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court Decision
The League of Women Voters commemorates the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS et al U.S. Supreme Court decision on May 17, 1954.
According to a 2024 Associated Press investigative report, American schools have been re-segregating for decades. The country is more diverse than it ever has been, with students more exposed to classmates from different backgrounds. Still, around 4 out of 10 Black and Hispanic students attend schools where almost every one of their classmates is another student of color.
The intense segregation by race is linked to socioeconomic conditions: Schools where students of color compose more than 90% of the student body are five times more likely to be located in low-income areas. That in turn has resounding academic consequences: Students who attend high-poverty schools, regardless of their family’s finances, have worse educational outcomes.
Efforts to slow or reverse the increasing separation of American schools have stalled. Court cases slowly have chipped away at the dream outlined in the case of Brown v. Board, leaving fewer and fewer tools in the hands of districts to integrate schools by the early 2000s.
"School integration exists as little more than an idea in America right now, a little more than a memory," said Derek Black, a law professor at the University of Southern California. "It’s actually an idea that a pretty good majority of Americans think is a good idea. But that’s all."
Read more about the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision in
Wikipedia.
Read the Associated Press school segregation analysis
article.
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