1950s+Education

=1950 Education = =  = = = During the fifties, American Education changed. Until 1954, an official policy of separate but equal educational opportunities for blacks had been determined to be the correct method for all the same education in public schools all over the nation. In 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren and other members of the Supreme Court wrote in Brown v. the board of education of the Topeka, Kansas that separate facilities for blacks did not make those facilities equal according to the Constitution. Integration was begun across the nation. In 1957, Elizabeth Eckford was the first black teenager to enter then all-white Little Rock Central High school, Little Rock, Arkansas. Although integration took place quietly in most towns, the conflict at Central High School in Little Rock was the first of many confrontations in Arkansas which showed that public opinion on this issue was divided.





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