The issue of desegregation has been a highly controversial issue since it was first legally introduced by the Supreme Court in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS. The issue was not whether or not to favor desegregation; almost everyone says they are for it on the surface. Controversy arises when it comes to how to implement desegregation. Immediately following the Brown decision, which supported school assignment without regard to race, many school districts adopted a geographic school assignment policy. This plan, especially in the 1950s, did little to eliminate segregated schools, even though it was a race-neutral integration policy. From that rocky start to desegregation, to the current battles over how to best implement desegregation through mandatory (or voluntary) transportation of minorities and whites, this issue has been at the forefront of discussions about race and education. This article will attempt to provide a brief history of desegregation in the United States, followed by a discussion of the current events surrounding this issue (with balance given to the views of both sides), and then offer advice on solutions that most benefit everyone involved . Brown v. Board of the Education in 1954 was a landmark decision in education. The decision held that schools that separated students based on skin color could no longer be maintained. The court found this necessary, as in their minds schools for black students would always be inferior. This inferiority would not be caused by a lack of resources, although this was usually a contributing factor to the poor quality of the school, physically and performance-wise. According to the Supreme Court, s...... middle of paper ......yllis A. and Dalmas A. Taylor, eds. Eliminate racism. New York: Plenum Press, 1988. Bankston III, Carl and Stephen J. Caldas. “Majority African American Schools and Social Injustice: The Influence of De facto Segregation on Academic Achievement.” Social Forces, December 1996, v75 n2 pp535-556. Bobo, Lawrence. “White Opposition to Busing: Symbolic Racism or Realistic Group Conflict?” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1983, v45 n6 pp. 1196-1210.Hacker, Andrew. Two Nations. New York: Sons of Charles Scribner, 1992.Katz, Phyllis A. and Dalmas A. Taylor, eds. Eliminate racism. New York: Plenum Press, 1988. Massey, Douglas A., and Nancy A. Denton. American Apartheid. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.Rivkin, Steven G. “Residential Segregation and School Integration.” Sociology of Education, October 1994, v67 pp. 279-292.