"It turned into something that Thurgood Marshall never intended it to be. It turned into building magnet schools to try to convince white parents to come back to the urban core," she said. It turned into busing our children to suburban school districts. "When school districts tried to comply with the separate but equal issue, it turned into a matter of counting heads. Whoever made the decision, after we graduated, it would have been nice if some of that effort could have been given to us so that we could still have the same quality of education that you want these white students to have," Townsend Young said.Ä«rown Henderson said though the motive was good, ultimately it evolved into something different than the ruling's intent. "It just appears to me that there was just more effort to bring more white students in to integrate the school. Reflecting back, Benita Townsend Young, class of 1978, shared similar memories. "After that, we started noticing we had access to more classes like physiology and anatomy. Desiree Saunders, class of 1980, remembers the shift in 1978 when white students started arriving at the once all Black school. It would take more than two decades for that decision to impact Lincoln High School in Kansas City. In 1954, the Supreme Court decided that segregation was unconstitutional and violated the 14th Amendment. They were all denied," Brown Henderson said. Try to enroll your kids in a white school and come back and tell us what happened and that's what they did in the fall of 1950. Her father was one of the plaintiffs in the case, which originated with the NAACP. California, Arizona, Delaware, Kansas, so this was not peculiar and it did not just come out of the blue," said Cheryl Brown Henderson, the founding president of The Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research. "There were dozens of school deseg cases. Board of Education is a landmark Supreme Court case which originated in Kansas.
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