African American Historic Educational Status
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The educational status and progress of African Americans has significantly evolved since the start of the twentieth century. However, education continues to be extremely important to African Americans in terms of promoting access to opportunities and removing barriers to success. According to William H. Gray (2004), the president of the United Negro College Fund, ôIt is vital that African Americans progress in higher education continues and increases in order to achieve representation that is at least equal to our representation in societyö (4). Legislation during the twentieth century has gone a long way in achieving greater representation of African Americans in higher education but progress is still needed. African Americans continue to make considerable strides in education, with record high numbers of African Americans graduating from high school, being admitted to college, and earning higher education degrees. However, the struggle for progress continues as African Americans are still portrayed as educationally dysfunctional, low-scoring on standardized tests, and resistant to educational achievement because it is viewed as ôacting Whiteö (Gray 2004, 1).During the last century, significant numbers of African Americans have overcome considerable barriers to academic success. One of the reasons for such progress is new legislation, changed admissions policies, and other factors that have removed some of the traditional barriers to academi
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te the racial prejudices cannot be overcome by legislation, and affirmed the separate but equal statute as legitimately proceeding from a constitutional interpretation of the 13th and 14th Amendments.
Nearly six decades later, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court declared segregation of public schools unconstitutional. Expert testimony from African Americans like Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and George Washington Carver influenced the CourtÆs decision. The judges agreed with such expert testimony when they wrote, ôSegregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored childrenàA sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learnö (Cozzens 1998, 1). In a direct blow to the precedent set in Plessy v. Ferguson, the High Court ruled, ôWe conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of æseparate but equalÆ has no placeö (Cozzens 1998, 2).
Many of the decisions of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren were aimed at increasing equality, especially racial and criminal justice equality. Thought the decision in Brown v. Board of Education required the desegregation of schools across America, actual desegregation of schools w
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