Desegregation

The Founding Fathers, in their conception of a more perfect union, drafted ideas that communicated the oppression they felt as slaves of Mother England. Ironically, nowhere in any of their documents did they address the issue of racial slavery. The Declaration of Independence from England was adopted as the country's' most fundamental constitutional document. It was the definitive statement for the American policy of government, of the necessary conditions for the exercise of political power, …

…racial grounds "generates a felling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to be undone." Although the decision did not bring about total integration of blacks in the schools, it resulted in efforts by many school systems to remove the imbalance by busing students. The Court's decision had far-reaching effects, influencing civil rights legislation and the civil rights movement of the 1960's.