Blacks and Education in the United States

When looking at paragraph six, a phrase catches my eye when they say "at the earliest practicable date." When looking at this a second time, you can make the conclusion that the court does want integration to occur, but they do not want to pressure anyone into doing it quickly. The "earliest practicable date" could be tomorrow, or ten years from now. Their definition is fuzzy and could be interpreted in different ways. There's a phrase in paragraph seven that says, "with all deliberate speed"; this phrase is like the prior one. In the dictionary, deliberate means - unhurried; slow. Now that is not a speed that I would use when wanting to take action. But you can see that the judges did not want to push anyone into something they didn't want to do. Unfortunately, for the Browns, and all other African American children there was a court ruling for integration to start an equal education for everyone, but there was no timetable for the ruling to come into use. The case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, was one of the most important steps for the black education community; unfortunately, the ruling was defined fuzzy and thus made education for blacks tread water for a considerable amount of time.…