School segregation persists essentially unchanged six decades after Brown.

Evidence

Brown v. Board of Education did not end segregated and unequal schools; it just ended segregation under the law. It took court orders and, at times, federal troops to produce any real integration. Nevertheless, more than six decades after the nation’s highest court proclaimed school segregation unconstitutional, Black children remain as segregated from white kids as they were in the early 1970s. There has never been a point in American history when even half of the Black children in this country have attended a majority-white school. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1363

Categorization

• SHARE: The striking datum that even half of Black children have never attended a majority-white school at any point in history is the kind of fact worth sending to someone teaching civics or civil rights history.
• XREF: connects to: Mississippi’s legislature acted to guarantee churches could stay segregated after Brown — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 127; Antibusing forces framed their cause as upholding Brown’s color-blind principle rather than as resistance. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 99; Congressional funding incentives, not Brown alone, produced Southern school desegregation. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1550 (+2 more)