Throughout history, beginning with the Fourteenth Amendment and the civil rights movements, opinions vary on the role that desegregation has played in American schools. The beginning of desegregation brought many changes, not only for students and parents, but also for many school districts and cities. One of many beliefs is that desegregation helped abolish racial imbalance among schoolchildren. There are many theories about the success of desegregation. Desegregation was introduced to schools in an effort to achieve equality in education, but this idea was accompanied by many obstacles, including highly controversial theories, racial tensions, and lasting social effects. Brown ll describes an idea that schools and courts were responsible for creating a unified educational system. Schools were ordered to remove the “segregation or dualism” systems they were using (Citizen Guide to Desegregation 4). With this order also came the belief that desegregation was about more than just black and white, but was more about equality in education. An unknown author's belief on the subject was that "desegregation refers to the suppression of legal and social practices" (Levinson 141). Some believed the myth that African American children were slower academically than white students. When in fact “black student achievement is increasing, sometimes at a faster rate than white student achievement, and sometimes to the point that the differences in the performance levels of the two races disappear” (Williams). many schools across the United States. The white community seemed to control the construction of new schools; while black schools were dismantled without the input of...... middle of paper ......ogy: an encyclopedia. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002. Print. Callahan, Jody. "The Brown Sisters Explain the 1954 Supreme Court Civil Rights Case: A Couple to Dispel Myths of a Landmark Case." Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN), February 4, 2010: Newspaper source. EBSCO. Internet. February 24, 2011. Williams, Jaun. “Support for desegregation is declining, study finds.” The Washington Post January 19, 1985. Print. William Kelley, et al. “The Consequences of School Desegregation in a Kansas Town 50 Years After Brown.” Urban Review 40.1 (2008): 76-95. Academic research completed. EBSCO. Internet. February 22, 2011Goodman, Irv. “Public schools are dead here.” Saturday Evening Post 234.17 (1961): 32-89. Academic research completed. EBSCO. Internet. February 18, 2011.MINOR, LLOYD B. “From Desegregation to Diversity and Inclusion.” Vital Discourses of the Day 77.1 (2011): 33-35. Academic research completed. EBSCO. Internet. February 22. 2011.