School segregation

School segregation is the division of people into different groups in the education system by characteristics such as race, religion, or ethnicity.

Before the mid-20th century, racial segregation in public schools was legally enforced in many parts of the United States, particularly in the South. Although the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education ruled that mandated school segregation was unconstitutional, progress towards integration was not immediate. Black students, especially in the South, would continue to attend predominantly Black schools for more than a decade after the ruling, while White students attended schools with a majority of white people. Supreme Court decisions like Green v. County School Board of New Kent County in 1968 started to mandate school desegregation and forced schools to implement measures to accelerate racial integration.