Integrating the school system.

By gabcos

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Topeka, Kansas: Oliver Brown sued to force the local school district to allow his daughter to attend a nearby white school

  • Brown v Board of ed cont.

    Kanses courts had rejected his suit. Availability of a school for African Americans fulfilled the supreme courts "seperate but equal" ruling.
    NAACP appealed.
    Thurgood Marshell argued the concept of seperate but equal was self contridictory

  • Brown V. Board of Ed

    Divided Court was unable to make a decision.

  • Brown V Board of Ed

    Earl Warren sat as Cheif Justice on the Supreme Court. Stated that seperate education facilities are unequal.

  • Brown v Board of Ed

    Court addressed how to implement the ruling and gave primary responsibilty to local school boards.

  • Little Rock Arkansas

    Central Highschool in Little Rock Arkansas was schedulded to integrate. They remained segregated.

  • Little Rock Arkansas

    Nine african American students walked in Central high unnoticed. Integratiion lasted 3 hours before riots broke out.

  • The new school year

    High schools began to close rather than integrate for the 1957-1958 school year.

  • schools opening

    schools began to reopen and integration slowly spread to lower grades

  • Cooper v Aaron

    the supreme court ruled that an African American has to right to attend school could not be "nullified openly" or by evasive schemes for segregation.