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Brown v board impact6/29/2023 But in recent years, that alliance has foundered over such issues as affirmative action. The black-white alliance built at lunch-counter sit-ins produced laws that transformed the society. The mixed picture reflects the profound social changes that have been at work in American society since the case of Linda Brown came to the attention of the Supreme Court and opened an era of civil rights protests and legislation, of accomplishment and disar ray. Board of Education, ''It was a decision that freed whites as well as blacks, and so there is reason for all to celebrate.'' Observers like Charles Willie, professor of education and urban studies at Harvard University, can still say of Brown v. And there are success stories, like those cited in a report to be released today by the National Education Association naming Charlotte, N.C., Austin, Tex., and Seattle as examples of progress. Nevertheless, the dual school system based on race that prevailed in the South in 1954 has been dismantled. In Northeastern cities, the number of minority students in segregated schools has been increasing. The pace of desegregation has slowed in the past few years, perhaps inevitably after so much progress, and in hundreds of places desegregation plans are still laboring through the courts and tensions aroused by court-ordered busing remains high. The one-third figure, for example, means that millions of schoolchildren continue to attend predominantly black or Hispanic classrooms. On this 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision barring segregated public schools, its effects seem at once more striking than some expected at the time, yet less thorough than many hoped. Today, after 15 years of earnest efforts at desegregation, that figure is down to one-third. Board of Education, two-thirds of black students were in virtually all-black schools. In 1968, more than a decade after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v.
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