This explains better than I can the differences we learned vs what is now being taught.
Colorblind Civil Rights v. Woke Civil Rights
"At the root of wokeness is the 1954 decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Or, rather the abuse of it. In a highly constitutionally-suspect decision (it contained no footnotes, case references and, as Caldwell notes in his 2020 book The Age of Entitlement, “each of its two parts ran about the length of a newspaper column”), the Supreme Court in Brown unanimously held that laws in certain southern states assigning kids to schools based on race (that is, the “separate, but equal” doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson) were in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. By banning racial discrimination in school placements full stop, Brown was understood and celebrated at the time as a ruling which finally and fully entrenched colorblindness in American society."
"While southern segregation laws did end there, as the recently deceased UT-Austin law professor Lino Graglia has written, because of the lack of racial integration found elsewhere in society (and not just in the South), Brown came to be seen by some “not as a triumph but as something of a disappointment, and its prohibition of discrimination as an obstacle rather than an aid to racial equality.” He cites progressive law scholars who have claimed that, if left as is, Brown’s colorblindness principle would have “obstructed the goal of equal achievement” and “imped[ed] efforts to dismantle old racial hierarchies.” Just like the woke today, progressives before them wanted something “more” than mere colorblindness in society and our legal system."