Racial Tension in the Educational System of the United States. Separation between Black and White Students

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: 1.0, University of Education Weingarten (Fakultät II), course: Literature 1: From Slavery to Black Lives Matter, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this term paper is to show how the educational system in the United States still separates black and white students, how racial tension affects the way black students are taught in schools, why black children are stereotyped as incapable of being educated and how diverse school settings benefit both white students and students of color. The desegregation of public schools in the United States was one of the major goals of the Civil Rights Movement. The case Brown versus Board of Education in 1954 made the Supreme Court declare that it is unconstitutional to maintain or establish laws allowing separate schools for black and white students. While this case broke down the official barriers for black students to visit the same high achieving schools as white people and gain equal education, nearly seventy years later, the majority of black students still visit separated schools and have to deal with inequal treatment.