Desegregation in the American South

Desegregation in the American South

In the case Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that the time of racial segregation in schools had come to an end. The year was 1954 and after years of not being able to have equal learning opportunities as Caucasian children, African Americans were now allowed to. The catch was the hatred and continued oppression they struggled through to be able to learn in peace. The impact of the dissatisfaction was in the southern states and aroused by the whites. They struggled mostly with the forced fact that they would not have the same power over blacks that they used to have. They did not appreciate the fact that they would have to share such social places with them.

White southerners also believed that they were better than the blacks and that the blacks should not have the same treatment as them. To block the blacks’ way, the white southerners ignored the court ruling. They believed that the Supreme Court had overstepped their boundaries. The outcome of desegregation hyped the South’s dislike of the federal government. Every chance they got the southern whites would find a way that they could go against the desegregation laws. Hostility and intimidation played a huge role in the stride to repress the African American race from wanting to learn.

In 1957 president Eisenhower ordered army groups to escort 9 teenagers into the central high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The reason it resulted to the escort is because the governor Orval Faubus blocked the 9 of them at the door. This escort was also needed because upon entry to the school the children faced mobs of angry white parents who did not want them to be able to learn in the same facility as their children. Poor whites reacted to the social integration with sadness. They thought it was not fair that they had the ‘burden’ of having to share neighborhoods, schools, swimming pools, and other public places with African Americans.