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On Brown V. Board Of Education's 50th Anniversary: To Integrate Or Separate Is Not The Question
On Brown V. Board Of Education's 50th Anniversary: To Integrate Or Separate Is Not The Question
Thomas Kleven
By ending official apartheid, Brown represented a great victory in the struggle for racial justice in the United States. Following more than a decade of inaction as a result of its “all deliberate speed” formulation, and in response to the then prevailing sentiment among the proponents of Brown, the Supreme Court began to push for the integration of school districts that engaged in segregation by law or practice. This integrationist push lasted from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Beginning in the mid-1970s the Court began to limit the remedies for segregation by law or practice, and beginning in …