The Education Issue

In looking at my timeline, I have included many events that have led us to the point where we are today with education. From 1849 to the present day, many events included have shaped our education system and how successful it has or hasn’t been in the past. The timeline that has been created include thirteen major events, all of which are still relevant today.  Beginning in 1849 , long before the Civil Rights Era, Massachusetts state ruled that segregated schools are permissible under state law.This, arguably, was the first event to cause a downward spiral in educational segregation. Based on the facts of the court case, Massachusstes deemed school segregation constitutional under state law after a man sued on behalf of his five year old daughter, who was denied access to a school because of the color of her skin. This is a problem that did not just happen in 1849, but also in the present day United States, as in multiple recent cases that have discussed race in re

The issue of education, specifically in the United States, has been an ongoing problem since the Civil Rights Movement, when Jim Crow laws were created that segregated bathrooms, schools, public transportation, and much more for African Americans. In 1896 , Plessy v. Ferguson deemed segregation constitutional and put in place “separate but equal laws.” This act after slavery set up years of issues to come, including contemporary issues that will be discussed in this blog. Historically, African Americans were enslaved, barred from specific rights, and heavily oppressed. For the topic at hand, however, educational segregation began with the Jim Crow Laws and was eventually deemed unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. According to the United States Courts , this case was made up of five court cases that argued for desegregation in public schools. Those cases were: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Briggs v. Elliot, Davis v. Board of Education of Prince Edward