The law that desegregated schools overnight | What the History!?

1954’s Brown v. Board of Education is often hailed as the Supreme Court ruling that effectively ended segregation in public school in the United States. Except that it didn’t. In this episode of WHAT THE HISTORY, host Sami Jarroush explores what happened in the wake of the landmark ruling.
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This episode of WHAT THE HISTORY?! is inspired by THE BUSING BATTLEGROUND and THE HARVEST: INTEGRATING MISSISSIPPI'S SCHOOLS: www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...
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[@GratitudeGriot]

My paternal grandma's side migrated north from VA to NY in the 1930s. My grandpa used his WW2 GI Bill to buy a home on the black-segregated side of Amityville. My uncle and dad went to integrated schools on Long Island but they said the town was segregated. It was known they were not welcome on the white side (Amityville Horror House side) of town.

[@leg414]

Thank you for this true and concise moment[s] in history as I lived it. Peace

[@LPWarwick]

Sami! This is great. ❤️

[@earlicaharrisharris9438]

But, I was part of a Landmark Decision 1956/1957 school year Kentucky! The first at age six(6) Brown vs Brown! I am Earlica Belle Coleman check your history 📜

[@glassman1533]

Schools will never be desegregated, either by race or income. Milliken vs Bradley gave the power of small town-sized schoom districts to keep their populations homogeneous. Secession efforts within cities by specific neighborhoods are proof that wealthier parents have caught onto this. As an additional backstop, the growth of private and homeschools since the pandemic has further eroded the ability of schools to desegregate. Pierce vs Society of Sisters is the legal basis for private schools to exist in the US. While it is technically illegal for private schools to discriminate on the basis of race, the 1st Amendment allows religious schools to discriminate on the basis of teligion and upwards of 80% of private schools in this country are religiously based. It is rather easy to craft a denomination the caters to a specific group. Homeschools are the classic case of srlf-segregation which, given the current state of education law and regulations are not illegal. Both of these options signal a clear and presrnt danger, not only to desrgregating public schools, but to the future of public schools altogether. Private and homeschools tend to have students who come from families that are whiter and wealthier than the national average. If these groups are no longer personally invested in the public school system (they tend to reject the notion of public schools altogether), it will becone increasingly difficult to find the political will to fund, let alone desegregate public schools to sn acceptable level.

[@thorntailband]

Rock it out blog!

[@kyleebrock]

Conservatives never got over this...

[@staxmarshall]

That's a funny accusation to make, considering how many instances there have been recently of public schools, colleges and universities in democrat run blue cities and states that worship the CRT religion who have been segregating students by race in classrooms, graduation ceremonies and race based preferences in admissions ... all in the name of "diversity".