Marietta History Files
Desegregating Cobb
Following the 1954 ruling in "Brown vs. Board of Education," Cobb County underwent a decade of turmoil.
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, declaring segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional and ordering public schools to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.” This set off a firestorm, especially throughout the South where racial segregation had been a mainstay of society since the end of Reconstruction. Responses to Brown were similar across most Southern states, as laws and amendments were enacted to prevent Brown from being enforced. Yet sentiments were far from universal, and the response was different between counties and, more importantly, between generations. Immediately on the heels of Brown, Georgia’s legislature passed a constitutional …
Pam J
10:47 pm on Thursday, August 25, 2011
I agree - who are these people that Cathy is talking about? I don't remember there being any problems but probably because we really had no blacks in the schools I went to from the 8th grade to the 12th grade. There was one black in my senior class at Osborne in 1971. We are still two or three generations away from getting rid of racism altogether. more ›