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I think Brown stands, for many of us, as a great achievement. We like to think that the moment those children made it through the mobs and into the school, something was set right. The actual fallout of Brown, with respect to primary and secondary education for Black children, has not been good. "Separate and unequal" describes the conditions of education for a large proportion of Black children, and so the means to prepare for college are significantly lacking, and so while avenues of advancement are nominally open, they are not open effectively, except, for the most part, for those Black people who were comparatively privileged to begin with. After a brief bubble of increased Black presence in higher education, the numbers have been tapering off for decades. Again, I'd refer you to Anderson's book, where the matter is dealt with in some detail.