{"id":726750,"date":"2024-05-16T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/?post_type=article&p=726750"},"modified":"2024-05-15T16:59:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T20:59:54","slug":"fulfilling-the-forgotten-promise-of-brown-v-board-of-education-70-years-later","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/fulfilling-the-forgotten-promise-of-brown-v-board-of-education-70-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Segregation Forever? What Supreme Court Failed to Do in ‘Brown v. Board’ Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to segregate children by race in the public schools. Now, 70 years later, it is time for the country to reckon with Brown v. Board of Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For years now, it\u2019s been conventional wisdom that the legacy of Brown<\/em> is, at best, complicated and possibly even an outright failure. On the one hand, it ended the evil practice of sorting kids into schools by race. By citing the Constitution in seeking to end this once-common policy, the justices reimagined the American social contract and marked a hugely important milestone for the country. On the other hand, despite optimistic predictions, the public schools remain starkly divided along racial and class lines<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read Brown<\/em><\/a> now, and you can see that the contradiction was there right from the beginning. The court lamented the impact that racially isolated schools can have on children of color, but the ruling itself didn\u2019t outlaw racial imbalances. It simply made it illegal to assign kids to school based on their race. In later cases, the court explicitly declined to outlaw the racial imbalances that arise indirectly from policies that do not mention race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. <\/em>Sign up for The 74 Newsletter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>
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