Both the United States and South Africa share similarities in the ways in which they have historically used schooling to subjugate southern African Americans and Black South Africans, respectively. After the Civil War in the United States and with the emergence of a public school system in the South, Whites segregated African Americans into separate schools that received less money in state expenditures per child, maintained poorer facilities, had fewer library books and other material educational advantages, and received little or no transportation for students seeking to attend school. These inequalities continued until well after the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared segregated schools unequal in 1954.
