Desegregating Schools in the South

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Through a review of several historical legal cases, this paper examines the gradual desegregation of schools that took place in the United States. The paper highlights the fallacy of the notion of "separate but equal" and points out that educational equality is foundational to the establishment of a culture that interacts in a meaningful way and that desegregation is the only way such equality might be achieved.

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"In the first half of the twentieth century, many major obstacles faced races of what centuries of popular history informed the American population were inferior races, and those at the bottom of the social scale were African American's the ancestors of slaves. (Allport 84-85) This was reflected almost universally in the culture, but nowhere more blatantly than in the separate but "equal" education system. (Allport 84-85) It was nowhere near equal with countless examples of inferiority throughout. The determining source of much of the fear and ignorance was and to some degree still is based on the ideas of a simple fear of the unknown or different. Through continued segregation the 'other' can still be seen as inferior as few opportunities were offered for people to have candid exposure to anything other than the dominant culture."

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