Why did the desegregation of schools become a major problem in the USA during the 1950s?
… segregation almost abolished in most states- where striving to apply the same principles on desegregation they had adopted on to the south. The significance of school desegregation and the influence it had on other segregation issues of the time was well realised by most of the south and all other segregation supporters. By the mid 1950s Desegregation was gradually starting to be enforced in the southern states. One of the most prominent and significant cases was that of Linda Brown, a black schoolgirl who had to walk two miles every morning and afternoon to attend a ‘black-only’ school. This was common in the south but the injustice lay in the fact that she lived just around the corner from a school, but the school was an ‘all-white’ school and would not permit her to attend. The NAACP stated that the segregation of schools caused black Americans to feel inferior …
