Brown vs Board of education started when a dad tried to enroll his daughter in white elementary school because it was in her neighborhood but was denied. She had to walk for miles everyday just to get to the nearest school. When the NAACP heard about this they were glad to help them. The brown's case was heard by the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. It took four years but finally law was passed about segregation had no place in public schools. By the time the law was passed the little girl, Linda brown was in middle school.
An article I read called Segregation is back in class by Annette Fuentes on 3/13/2007 was about an article that is similar to brown vs. the board of education, it talks about how segragation in schools is still going on and we havent even noticed it. They showed different statistics about how In 1991, the southern states had 39% of black students who attend schools that were majority white, but in 2003 there were only 29% black students who attended majority white schools. This passage from the article says "In Arkansas, home to the historic integration effort, the percentage of white students in schools attended by black students decreased by 8 points from 1991 to 2003. In Kentucky, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri and Oklahoma, 69% of black students attended majority non-white schools in 2003; in 1991, only 59% did."
My question is are we going back to 1951 where schools where segregated? only time will tell what will happen next.
An article I read called Segregation is back in class by Annette Fuentes on 3/13/2007 was about an article that is similar to brown vs. the board of education, it talks about how segragation in schools is still going on and we havent even noticed it. They showed different statistics about how In 1991, the southern states had 39% of black students who attend schools that were majority white, but in 2003 there were only 29% black students who attended majority white schools. This passage from the article says "In Arkansas, home to the historic integration effort, the percentage of white students in schools attended by black students decreased by 8 points from 1991 to 2003. In Kentucky, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri and Oklahoma, 69% of black students attended majority non-white schools in 2003; in 1991, only 59% did."
My question is are we going back to 1951 where schools where segregated? only time will tell what will happen next.
3 comments:
I like how you have a story in the beginning it automatically hooked me in and made me want to continue reading
I like your use of language and how you interact with the reader. I also like the use of evidence from the article that you have linked.
you might want to say that the nearest black school that she had to walk to was miles away. I like how you put the link in the articles it looks nice. I also like how you stuck with colors that match. I felt everything tied because there was a nice transition between the paragraphs.
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