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Brown v. Board and School Desegregation

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The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling held that legally separate schools by race were inherently unequal, overturning "separate but equal."

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Federal troops enforced Black students' court-ordered right to enroll at previously all-White schools in the years following the ruling.

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This entry applies Soc 1064's de jure/de facto split to schooling; ending mandated segregation did not end segregation from other factors.