Background The author, Juan Williams, attended the public schools of New York City for many year. Even though Brown was passed years ago, New York City schools are still seem to be segregated by race and class. Some of this is due to housing situations. A large amount of blacks and latinos live in the same high poverty neighborhoods and attend the same schools located near them. It’s hard to grasp the fact that schools today are still segregated, but in cities like New York City and even Louisville it is understandable how it could be hard to diversify schools without bussing students far away from their neighborhoods. In this situation, I wonder if it would be more beneficial for students if more time and energy was put into making the schools equal in opportunities, rather than equal in the diversity of ethnicities.
Summary “Today it is hard to even remember America before Brown because the ruling completely changed the nation. It still stands as the laser beam that first signaled that the federal government no longer gave its support to racial segregation among Americans” (11).…show more content… In 1954, the Brown decision outlawed school segregation in the United States. The decision was met with immediate pushback in Southern states, and even 10 years after the ruling very little desegregation had occurred. Only in the late ‘60s when schools were faced with losing funding did school integration really begin in public schools in the south. However, total desegregation of schools has never been achieved, and today school segregation is once again on the rise because of housing patterns. Minorities in concentrated areas create new issues with public schools being segregated by race and by
