Rone details the hard fought court cases against educational segregation in South Carolina during the 50s and 60s as well as events which related to those cases. The cases depict a story of intolerance, disregard for the law with respect to desegregation, and outright harm to non-white ...
In contrast, social equality, which would manifest itself in the “commingling” of the races in public conveyances and elsewhere, would necessarily be the result of the “natural affinities” of the two races, their “mutual appreciation of each other’s merits,” and the “voluntary consent ...
Little Rock Nine, group of African American high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. The group became the center of the struggle to desegregate public schools in the United States, and their a
Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on May 27, 1968, ruled (9–0) that a “freedom-of-choice” provision in a Virginia school board’s desegregation plan was unacceptable because there were available alte