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Desegregation
The landmark court case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 made it illegal for students to be segregated in public schools based on race. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation was illegal and all children be granted the right to an equal education, which reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that stated separate but equal facilities was legal. After the Brown ruling, state educators had to desegregate their schools, meaning redrawing school boundary lines and/or bussing mainly black students to other schools or districts. There was great resistance in the South to desegregation in their public schools. For more information, see Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
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