Educational Discrimination: The difference in learning results experienced by students coming from minority groups in comparison to white students.
By cperkins14
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Education
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
as a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal. it also mandated that schools be segregated into black and white -
Cumming v. Richmond
The Supreme Court allows a state to put taxes on black and white citizens alike while providing a public school for white children only. -
Gong Lum v. Rice
The Supreme Court finds that states possess the right to define a Chinese student as non-white for the purpose of segregating public schools -
Levi Pearson
He was African American in South Carolina who spoke out against the segregation of schools and assisted in the NAACP. Levi filed a lawsuit against the Clarendon County School District to protest the inequitable treatment of black children, and although his case was dismissed he served as a catalyst for further attempts to desegregate South Carolina schools. -
University of Maryland v. Murray
The Maryland Supreme Court orders the state's white law school to enroll a black student because there is no state-supported law school for Blacks in Maryland -
Thurgood Marshall
He was rejected by the University of Maryland Law on racial grounds; after his rejection, he went to the Howard university law school, and by 1938 he was the Chief Legal Advisor of the NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). After his experiences, he focused his attentions on “separate but equal” in further education colleges. -
Earl Warren
He was the head of the Supreme Court in the 1950’s; he made a promise to do what he could to undo the blatant abuses such as those found within education. -
Brown v. Board of Education
In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education overturns Plessy and declares that separate schools are "inherently unequal." The Court delays deciding on how to implement the decision and asks for another round of arguments. -
Oliver brown
He had an 8 year old daughter who had to travel 21 blocks to school despite the fact there was a school 7 blocks from her home, but it was for white children only. Brown made an important impact on the civil rights movement. -
Little rock nine
Governor Faubus sends his national guard to physically prevent 9 African American students from entering an all-white high school, but President Dwight D. Eisenhower took action against the defiant governor by simultaneously federalizing the Arkansas National Guard, removing the Guard from Faubus' control, and ordering one thousand troops from the United States Army 101st Airborne Division in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky to oversee the integration. -
Georgia high school holds its first non-racially segregated prom
Up until this year, students at the school of about 400 students in rural Rochelle, Ga. -- population 1,415 -- attended either a spring dance for white students, or a separate event for black students -
Current Status
Although schools are not segregated anymore there are still gaps of acheivement in the education system. National Center for Education Statistics in 2009 and 2011 showed that black and Hispanic students trailed their white peers by an average of more than 20 test-score points on the NAEP math and reading assessments at 4th and 8th grades, a difference of about two grade levels.
