My project is on Brown vs. the Board of education. Most minorities have their own cultural stereotypes; of I’m more educated than you, I’m more athletic, I’m more of a harder worker or My ethnic group has more money. We have seen minority groups come up with their own social standards, to break away from unity, but in the 1950’s all minorities were considered colored. It was a time period, where it didn’t matter how smart you thought you were you were denied privileges that were only given to whites.
By denying access to public libraries, the states often enforced the rules of race. Jim crow socially is a concept of separate but not equal. It refers to the inequality of colored people. In the south one third of its citizen were dehumanized by the Jim Crow law’s of segregation. There were transit stations where coloreds were treated differently. It was not separate but equal. It was another way to up lift white supremacy and continue public humiliation.
There was also a lower standard of education for Colored’s. In white areas the amount of money allocated for students was three times higher than Colored’s in the same district. Their school buildings were usually run down and didn’t have the capacity of running water or indoor plumbing for restrooms. This lead to higher rates of grammar school dropouts.
Oliver Brown’s child had to walk clear across town in order to go to school even though there was one only a few blocks away, but for whites only. In this period coloreds started to have resentment against whites for being treated as second class citizens. This type of social treatment lead to the insecurities of colored children because they knew that if they were white there would be no barriers or limitations of what they could be. Colored parents just want things to be right. To see their children go to quality schools and for people to realize that separate put equal has no place in a democracy. We have come along way but a lot more needs to be done.
Hopefully in the future people would no longer have to measure their compliments in life compared to whites, to feel as though they are somebody.