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October 29, 2004: Headlines: COS - Turkey: Civil Rights: Central Michigan Life: “It’s in our national interest to educate all our children, not just some,” said panelist Elaine Jones, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense fund
“It’s in our national interest to educate all our children, not just some,” said panelist Elaine Jones, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense fund
“It’s in our national interest to educate all our children, not just some,” said panelist Elaine Jones, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense fund
Brown v. Board of Education
Panel: 50 years after case, public schools still segregated
By Kate Finneren
Central Michigan Life
October 29, 2004
Brown v. Board of Education made segregation illegal in 1954.
But segregation still is alive in the United States, according to legal and judicial panelists who assessed the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wednesday at a forum in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
The nation is moving backward in the effort to desegregate public schools, the panelists said.
“It’s in our national interest to educate all our children, not just some,” said panelist Elaine Jones, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense fund. “Look in the Constitution of the United States. The word education is not there as it should be.”
In many districts where court-ordered desegregation was ended in the past decade, panelists said there has been a major increase in segregation.
Rural and small town school districts are, on average, the nation’s most integrated for both African Americans and Latinos.
Central cities of large metropolitan areas are the epicenter of segregation, according to research done by Harvard University’s Civil Rights Project, printed and handed out to those who attended the forum.
Segregation also is severe in smaller central cities and in the suburban rings of large metro areas.
The vast majority of intensely segregated minority schools face conditions of concentrated poverty — conditions students in segregated white schools seldom experience. This is related to unequal educational opportunity, according to the research, discussed by panelists.
Panelist David Collins, from General Motors’ Legal Counsel in Detroit, said Brown v. Board is a curious phenomenon that has changed America but left schools behind.
“It dealt with schools and was crafted to only deal with education,” he said. “Yet that school rule has been used to dismantle segregation in field after field except education.”
Fred Mester, Circuit Court Judge in Oakland County, said to resolve this problem, it takes each individual in this nation to play an active role.
“I like to look at the United States as a mosaic and we’re each a piece in that mosaic,” Mester said. “It takes each of us working together.”
The evening’s moderator, Griffin Endowed Chair Bill Ballenger, said he was very impressed by the assemblage of legal and judicial talent present at Wednesday’s panel.
“I think you probably got more judicial and legal talent assembled here in one place at one time tonight at Central Michigan University than at any time since Thurgood Marshall had breakfast in the Supreme Court cafeteria alone,” Ballenger said. “It’s very impressive.”
University President Michael Rao said he was pleased with the audience filling the lower level of the auditorium.
“I’m very, very impressed to see this audience,” he said. “This is absolutely what I had hoped for.”
Commerce sophomore Kate Maxwell said she was impressed with the speakers’ credentials and how they advocated for change in education.
“I think it’s good they addressed the problems that need to be addressed,” Maxwell said.
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