Jon Eckert, an associate professor in Wheaton’s education department, researches teaching effectiveness, compensation, and collective leadership. Thanks to people like Linda Brown, we have some role models.ĭr. We need more heroes-both students and adults. We still have a long way to go before our schools and churches reflect God’s kingdom.
This lack of representation has repercussions for the academic success of African-American students. Today, African-American teachers are under-represented in comparison to the percentage of African-American students in U.S. Over the next decade, nearly half had been fired. As schools were integrated, those serving African-Americans were closed, and their teachers were fired. There were approximately 82,000 African-American teachers across the South at the time of the Brown decision. We are still paying the price for that glaring omission as schools lost many excellent African-American teachers. Board decision, teachers are only mentioned once in the main text. We should have integrated teachers and administrators, but we asked African-American students to do this on their own. We integrated students before integrating the adults who served those students. We all lose when we are separated by race.Īs a society, we asked Linda Brown to do what adults would not. Although there is evidence of resegregation over the past few decades, without the efforts of students like Linda Brown, our society would be far more impoverished. Nearly 90 percent of school-age children attend public schools today-public schools that now serve more students of color than white students. What she and other African-American students did to create a better society through integrated public schools was heroic. Jon Eckert: The Brown decision should have included integration of teachers and administrators
In this post, Wheaton College professors from three disciplines - education, history, and psychology - comment on the impact of the Brown decision on American culture. The decision opened the door for desegregation of American schools. In that case, the Supreme Court determined that “ separate but equal ” schools for African-Americans and white students were unconstitutional. She is remembered as Linda Brown, the child whose name is attached to the famous 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. The death of Linda Brown Thompson on March 25th marked an important moment in American history.
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