Racial Integration in Education in Missouri

Though the state of Missouri has always been a bit reluctant in its extension of the rights of citizenship to Negroes, it has usually been one in which the Constitutional law of the United States has been respected. This pattern has not changed since the May 17, 1954 decision of the United States Supreme Court which declared segregated schools unconstitutional. A Southern state in many of its allegiencies, Missouri, nevertheless, is so closely allied in its interests with the Midwest that the Negro has not fared as poorly as he has in some Southern states. This may partially explain the average citizen's willingness to accept the Supreme Court decision on education. The almost 300,000 Negroes who live within the state have suffered certain limitations which have prevented their full and equal development. Most of this number (261,800) livein the larger cities, with 152,550 in St. Louis and Kansas City. Another 29,000 live in the southeastern section of the state.' The others, for the most part, are scattered into areas surrounding or near the larger cities. Except in some parts of the southeastern section of the state, and principally the Bootheel, train travel and station facilities have been on a non-restricted basis for many years. The general pattern of

Mathematics education · Political science · Racial bias · Racial integration · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Psychology · School Choice and Performance

• From Jefferson to Banneker

  Open Access•Peter William Moran•History of Education Quarterly•2019

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• Introduction

  Ula Taylor, Ula Yvette Taylor•The Journal of African American…•2011

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