Rebirthing Brown

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By Greg

Moses

In Brown V. Board of Education, its 1954 ruling against school segregation, the US

Supreme Court made it the Constitutional business of the nation to care about the motivations of

African American children. Segregation, the court argued, was unfair to African American children,

because the practice of separating blacks by law conveyed a sense that they were inferior to whites.

And the sense of inferiority tended to damage a black child’s motivation to learn. On the basis of

these particular considerations, the Court found that segregation was inherently

unequal.