Implementing The Brown Decision

 

Though the Supreme Court ruled that the implementing of the Brown Decision would not be done right away; after almost 15 years of failed progression towards integration, the Court stepped its game up and demanded more of the school districts in America and made more decisions. One of the first decisions was regarding the "freedom of choice" program in Virginia. Schools in Virginia gave the students the opportunity to choose the schools they would attend in the city. The Supreme Court ruled in this decision that though the plan seemed to be achieving equality, it was not because it would eventually result in white students choosing the white school only, and black students attending the black school only. The segregated tradition would still stand in place with this program. The court said that the district integration plan had to actually integrate the students, and must convince the white students to join the black students and vice versa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      The Court finally decided that they could no longer put off integrating the schools, and now that 15 years had passed since the Brown Case Decision, they had to act now. The Court gave more exact and to the point instructions to the school districts on how they would go about integrating their schools. The Court became very serious, and also said that if they found anyone with unequal schools; they would be closely watched by the courts, and the district would have to prove that the schools were not unequal because of old or new traditions. School districts were also told to expand their transportation routes so that more diverse groups of students could attend the school.

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       The Court also warned the northern school districts, the more liberal districts, that their integration plans would be as closely examined as the southern schools'. Segregation in northern schools was complicated due to the fact that segregation barely happened because of what the local law says, or a bad or peculiar integration plan. Segregation usually happened because of unofficial decisions made by officials that were contradicting the district policy. Plus, segregation only happened in a few select places in a district; not all the schools in northern school districts were segregated. The Court decided, that regardless of the fact that not all schools were segregated in a district, a district would still have to prove that it was not discriminatory if one schools was segregating its students.