The massive effort to desegregate public schools across the United States was a major goal of the Civil Rights Movement. Since the 1930s, lawyers from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had strategized to bring local lawsuits to court, arguing that separate was not equal and that every child, regardless of race, deserved a first-class education. These lawsuits were combined into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in schools in 1954. But the vast majority of segregated schools were not integrated, and some scholars argue that school integration has been thwarted in the United States.

This paper is intended as a cross-ethnic/racial analysis paper which is focused on the topic of school segregation in the U.S.  You will conduct research on school segregation across the nation, and its impact on different ethnic/racial groups such as African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans; you will examine federal and state laws and policies that have shaped schools, as well as their impact on these varied ethnic/racial groups; and finally you will discuss the impact of varied Supreme Court decisions on school segregation and what it means for diverse  groups of students and communities.

Your paper must draw upon a Critical Race Theory (CRT) framework to discuss these issues. You must use several class films and assigned readings, as well as outside academic (scholarly) readings to  support your paper’s development and analysis.  Keep in mind that you are assuming that your reader does not have any context and background on this topic.

Your paper will be 7-10 pages and length, and will adhere to APA rules. You will be required to use at least three films/videos, and 7 scholarly articles to support the development of your paper (a total of 10 sources minimum).