North Carolina School Integration Timeline

By PaulT456

  • Brown v. Board

    Integration of Schools is introduced

  • Governor’s Special Advisory Committee on Education Created

    First attempt at stopping true integration.

  • Luther Hodges Elected Governor

    Opposed desegregation

  • Pupil Assignment Act

    Another attempt to delay/stop desegregation

  • Pearsall Plan

    Amendment to the Compulsory School Attendance Law so that students might be excused from attending an integrated public school.

  • Pearsall Plan forced private Indian School to be built

    Due to segregation the Pearsall plan forced American Indians to build their own private school.

  • Federal Civil Rights Act

    outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • 1964 Federal Civil Rights Act declared Pearsall Plan unconstitutional

    Although segregation still continued

  • Godwin v. Johnston County Board of Education

    Ruled Pearsall Plan unconstitutional

  • Federal Court Upheld decision that Charlotte Schools must be desegregated

    The United States Supreme Court in 1971 upheld a decision that declared that the Charlotte school system must desegregate, and, if necessary, it must bus students to schools outside their communities to achieve integration.

  • North Carolina Meets Brown v. Board decision

    NC finally satisfactorily reached the requirements Brown v. Board set.