Finally, the desegregation of school did influence many aspects, including Acts from government, and how black students were treated equally or not. Here is my thought.
First at all, because this case caused by unequally civil rights, and caused black children inferiority of race, it bought some Acts for protecting civil right. “ Brown v. Board of Education encourage[d] to further the civil rights work of the 1960s, which in turn led to the Civil Rights Acts(1964,1991), the Voting Rights Act (1965), the Fair Housing Act (1968) and related legislation” ( Zirkel and Cantor 4). Those action from government helped to change racial discrimination between black and white, and keep black’s social role in the United States. 
Second, government pushed desegregation in school harshly, and it did make progress of treating black students. “After desegregation's first decade, only 2.3 percent of African American children in the Deep South attended integrated schools” and “In 1966, the Fifth Circuit Court, in United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ordered school districts not only to end segregation but to "undo the harm" segregation had caused by racially balancing their schools under federal guidelines” (“School Desegregation and Equal Educational Opportunity”). Black students were allowed into the common school. They really got protection constitutional this time and it was good for them growing up under a heathy circumstance. However, had desegregation ended their tragedies yet? It was still a consideration about black students’ lives in the desegregate school. There was a data to show what happened to late nineteenth century. “ In 1968, it had been only 22% black students; in 1980, there were 38% African American children” ( Patterson 9). Evidently, desegregation increased rates of black students in white school or common school. It helped black students out, and improved the relationship of races. In fact, “ by 1996, this number had dropped to 32%; in 1996, the percentage of black kids in schools that are 90% or more black - which really mean[ed] they’re black schools. What’s happening was a process of creeping resegregation” (Patterson 11). This data was kind of sad to desegregation, but it really meant something. Although the desegregation was successful in some ways, it existed something undone. Now, history was kind preparing to repeat himself. “ Today, the percentage of black students in the South that attend white majority public schools has declined to around 30. Many blacks are living in the Northern industrial cities” (“ Brown v. Board of Education). In the United States, white and black achieve not completely achieve integration.
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Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: Its Impact on Education, and What It Left Undone. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2002. Print.
Zirkel, Sabrina, and Nancy Cantor. "50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education: The Promise and Challenge of Multicultural Education." Journal of Social Issues 60.1 (2004): 1-15. Print.
"School Desegregation and Equal Educational Opportunity." The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 April. 2014.
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