The civil rights movement attempted to correct the failures of Reconstruction, but it was not executed well. The movement was thwarted by the numerous conflicts it faced due to opposition of what it was fighting for. One attempt made to correct this failure was the permanent desegregation of all public schools across the country. In celebration of Brown v. Board of Education all public schools were integrated with both races. Before this integration there were all-white and all-black schools. This was in favor of the idea of “separate but equal”. But it was demonstrated by the “painful and systematic underfunding of black schools”: things were separate but rarely equal. (Source 9) As a solution to this, it was decided that a fully integrated society would start with national schools. (Source 9) Two years after one of the first school integrations in Little Rock, Effie Jones Bowers helped desegregate the nearby school, Hall High School. The students were placed in an all-white school like Central High School. According to one of the students, they were facing the street...
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