The Board of Education may have ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and declared that public schools must desegregate, but these findings cannot be the only thing to consider (Marrone, 1954). While school desegregation represents a historic victory for the American civil rights movement, every battle comes with costs. When schools were desegregated, most black students moved to predominantly white districts. Doing the opposite would never be considered, because schools serving black children were often dilapidated and lacked adequate funding. As a result of student attrition, Black teachers lost a total of “38,000 jobs… between 1954 and 1965” (Ladson-Billings, 2004). This elimination of Black educators has caused enormous harm to a 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 wave of hatred that followed desegregation attempts, seems all the worse when you consider that after Brown, many believed that racial inequality in schools was