The Board of Education may have ruled that "segregated educational facilities are inherently unequal" and declared that public schools must desegregate, but these achievements do not cannot be the only thing we consider (Brun, 1954). While school desegregation is a historic victory for the American civil rights movement, every battle has a cost. When schools desegregated, most black students moved to predominantly white neighborhoods. Doing the opposite would never be considered, as schools for black children were often dilapidated and lacked adequate funding. As a result of students leaving, black educators lost a total of “38,000 jobs…between 1954 and 1965” (Ladson-Billings, 2004). This eradication of black educators caused monumental damage to an entire generation of students. Black students could no longer go to school and see themselves reflected in the adult leaders and role models there. This, combined with the outpouring of hatred that followed attempts at desegregation, makes it all seem worse when you consider that after Brown, many thought racial inequality in schools was a problem.