Segregated Schools

Segregated schools were declared unconstitutional and illegal with the ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case. The case took place in 1954 and was a landmark United States Supreme Court case. African American students were permitted to attend the same schools white students attended. “I am convinced that the Supreme Court decision set back progress in the South at least fifteen years” (Eisenhower). President Eisenhower believed integrated schools slowed down social progress for social equality. “It’s all very well to talk about school integration-if you remember that you may also be talking about social disintegration” (Eisenhower). The ruling in Brown v. Board of Education set the South back fifteen years as President Eisenhower