Harvey Milk High School

During the Civil Rights Movement, the case of Brown v. Board of Education overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling. The Plessy v. Ferguson trial had made it legal for schools and public things to be "separate but equal." Brown v. Board of Education decided that "Separate but equal is inherently unequal." In the past twenty years, the youth of America has done similar things in the education system trying to get fair and equal treatment of gay, bi-sexual, lesbian and transgender students (GLBT). The Harvey Milk School (HMS) in New York City was first made in 1984, yet because of a rise in unfair treatment of GLBT students, their administration decided to expand their campus to house (for teaching) more students. Increasing the size of the school has made people talk about whether it is a good thing to have it or not.

In the past twenty years, the statistics of hate crimes against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth have gone up. During 2002, law enforcement agencies reported 7,462 hate crime incidents that involved 8,832 offenses. Incidents of anti-gay hate violence rose 24 percent in the last six months of 2003, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to stri

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