Brown v. Board of Education historic, but court decision doesn’t change the hearts and minds
Really interesting firsthand account of one woman's experience, pre and post integration.
May 17, 2014
Brown v. Board of Education historic, but court ‘decision doesn’t change the hearts and minds of people’
By Chelsi Baker
Times West Virginian
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FAIRMONT — Sixty years ago today, on May 17, 1954, the courts decided that separate is not equal.
Brown v. Board of Education was a combination of five separate cases brought to the U.S. Supreme Court surrounding the issue of segregation in public schools and, particularly, whether or not black children were getting an equal education to that of white children.
After much deliberation, Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the court’s decision: Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal and schools should integrate with all deliberate speed.
But it wasn’t that easy....