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Personal experience working with Roma children to integrate them into Bulgarian public schools is drawn on to consider the rough road for desegregation following Brown v. Board of Education. A comparison between US & Bulgarian desegregation indicate a far smoother & successful effort in Bulgaria than was the case following the US Supreme Court decision. The high level of community social support for the Romany families is noted, & while all is not perfect with the transition, nothing resembles the concerted reaction of the US South to Brown v. Board of Education. Attention is then given to the intense southern response, & the possibility of smoother US integration is seen to have been discouraged by state action doctrine & the capacity for the legal right to integrate in other ways would have effect true social change. Why litigation rather than politics was the route to pursue for the US civil rights movement is demonstrated before looking at how the decision spelled the end of segregation & spurred the 1960s civil rights acts & compelled the US to accept racial change. J. Zendejas

The Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, and declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. That same day, the Court held that racial segregation in the District of Columbia public schools violated the Due Process clause of the 5th Amendment in Bolling v. Sharpe. The Court scheduled arguments on remedy in Brown for October but eventually put them off until April of 1955. Significance: The Court ruled that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment and was, therefore, unconstitutional. In the wake of the decision, the District of Columbia and some school districts in the border states began to desegregate their schools voluntarily. State legislatures in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia adopted resolutions of "interposition and nullification" that declared the Court's decision to be "null, void, and no effect." Various southern legislatures passed laws that imposed sanctions on anyone who implemented desegregation, and enacted school closing plans that authorized the suspension of public education, and the disbursement of public funds to parents to send their children to private schools. ; https://bluetigercommons.lincolnu.edu/lgaines_sec6/1009/thumbnail.jpg

Brown v. Board of Education.

This article reviews educational initiatives of state and federal government that were designed to remedy the effects of racial segregation on Black public school students in the United States after the famous Brown v. Board of Education decisions. Several policy and legal initiatives are reviewed, including school desegregation, compensatory education, decentralization, school reform and restructuring, school finance litigation, state accountability models, school district takeovers, vouchers, charter schools, No Child Left Behind, and privatization.