End School Segregation; Support IntegrateUS and Sign our Constitution
End School Segregation; Support IntegrateUS and Sign our Constitution
The Issue
Most history textbooks will refer to May 14, 1954, as the day that school segregation was ended with Brown v Board of Education passing the verdict that segregated schools were inherently unequal. As of today, April 8, 2018, students in the US still attend racially and culturally segregated schools and have been robbed of the chance to better learn about themselves or each other. Separate is still not equal.
Linda Brown, the little girl who fought bravely alongside her father to bring this case to the Supreme Court, passed away on March 25 of this year, before she could see her dream of an integrated school system come to fruition. However, students across the nation are joining hands with teachers and administrators to take the baton of the activists who came before them like Linda Brown and carry on their legacy by taking strides in the direction of ending school segregation once and for all. We are those students.
IntegrateNYC started in a classroom in the South Bronx when students read the UCLA report that 60 years since the Brown case 1.1 million diverse students in NYC public schools attend some of the most segregated schools in the country. The student leaders of IntegrateNYC realized that creating racial diversity is important, but it isn't the only piece of segregation.
We created a 5 point platform called the 5 R’s of Real Integration:
Racial Integration: Which students are in schools?
Resources: What is in the schools?
Relationships: How do students interact with one another? Whose stories are honored?
Restorative Justice: Who gets punished and in what ways?
Representation: Who is teaching and leading in the building?
IntegrateNYC has grown into IntegrateUS - a national network bringing together passionate student leaders across the country - from New York to Florida - driven to bring change to the state of the school system in our communities, under the belief that separate is still not equal.
We are asking for your help in joining us in this fight to integrate our schools through learning with us during our Month of Mobilization, signing our Constitution, and following us on our social media.
Twitter: @integratenyc
Snapchat:
Our website: http://integratenyc.org/build
#StillNotEqual
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The Issue
Most history textbooks will refer to May 14, 1954, as the day that school segregation was ended with Brown v Board of Education passing the verdict that segregated schools were inherently unequal. As of today, April 8, 2018, students in the US still attend racially and culturally segregated schools and have been robbed of the chance to better learn about themselves or each other. Separate is still not equal.
Linda Brown, the little girl who fought bravely alongside her father to bring this case to the Supreme Court, passed away on March 25 of this year, before she could see her dream of an integrated school system come to fruition. However, students across the nation are joining hands with teachers and administrators to take the baton of the activists who came before them like Linda Brown and carry on their legacy by taking strides in the direction of ending school segregation once and for all. We are those students.
IntegrateNYC started in a classroom in the South Bronx when students read the UCLA report that 60 years since the Brown case 1.1 million diverse students in NYC public schools attend some of the most segregated schools in the country. The student leaders of IntegrateNYC realized that creating racial diversity is important, but it isn't the only piece of segregation.
We created a 5 point platform called the 5 R’s of Real Integration:
Racial Integration: Which students are in schools?
Resources: What is in the schools?
Relationships: How do students interact with one another? Whose stories are honored?
Restorative Justice: Who gets punished and in what ways?
Representation: Who is teaching and leading in the building?
IntegrateNYC has grown into IntegrateUS - a national network bringing together passionate student leaders across the country - from New York to Florida - driven to bring change to the state of the school system in our communities, under the belief that separate is still not equal.
We are asking for your help in joining us in this fight to integrate our schools through learning with us during our Month of Mobilization, signing our Constitution, and following us on our social media.
Twitter: @integratenyc
Snapchat:
Our website: http://integratenyc.org/build
#StillNotEqual
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Petition created on April 8, 2018