Abstract
Brown v. Board of Education 1954 was a landmark case that challenged segregation and denied Black children from accessing all White schools. The ruling in the case was that the ‘separate but equal’ rule that saw separate facilities and services which was usually of lower standards for Black people, unlawful. This marked a huge milestone in the challenge to segregation in education and other societal services, however despite legislation that supports integration, it continues to be a struggle. Access, quality, equity and funding of learning for African Americans and people of colour remains inadequate. The ongoing battle to attain integration in education can further be challenged with an approach that agrees with the notion of segregated schools but rather than Separate but Equal, Separate and equal. This implies that opportunities for minority groups that continue to be excluded from the best education opportunities would continue to have separate facilities but the funding, quality of provision, learning environment and teachers from diverse backgrounds would be equal to the services provided in White educational establishments. This approach may serve to attain King’s dream of integration and equality.
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Herbert, A. (2016). Educated in a Segregated System. In: Martin Luther King . SpringerBriefs in Education(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39235-6_2
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