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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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NAACP begins fighting inequality
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Arkansas Govenor calls in National Guard to protect colored students entering school - became known as "Little Rock Nine"
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Schools begin truly attempting desegregation through the 60's-70's.
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Busing is used as a controversial way to integrate schools
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Government begins moving away from "desegregation" plans due to limitations on what can be done to remedy the past.
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Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site is opened in Topeka KS
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Supreme Court strikes down plans in Seattle & Louisville which would have desegregated students by assigning them to schools by race.