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On February 28, Brown v. Board of Education was filed in Federal district court, in Kansas.
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Robert Carter led the NAACP legal team into trial. NAACP is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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School segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and the District of Columbia are bundled together under Brown v. Board of Education, the Kansas case, filed in federal district court the previous year. This indicates the Supreme Court views the issue as a matter of national importance.
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The five school desegregation cases are brought together before the U.S. Supreme Court as Brown v. Board of Education. The court fails to reach a decision and the case is resubmitted.
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First round of arguments held in Brown and its companion cases. This arguement went on for two days.
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The Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, and declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
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State legislatures resist enforcing the Brown decision, declaring it “null, void and no effect” and implementing laws to challenge it. The Supreme Court issues the second ruling in the case, known as Brown II. It orders that desegregation must proceed “with all deliberate speed.
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Two law suits filed in the San Diego Federal District Court charging two Imperial County public school districts with segregation of African-American and Mexican-American children.
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President Eisenhower orders National Guard to Little Rock, Arkansas, to escort nine black students to Central H.S. to enforce Brown
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It ended on May 17, 1957 when the Court made a ruling. But people still had problems with this case so it went on for a while longer
