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Plessy v Ferguson
U.S. Supreme court rules that as long as "seperate but equal" facilities was established for African Americans and Whites that the 14th Amendment was not violated -
NAACP Is established
Created by W.E.B. Du Bois to fight the radical injustice through legal means -
NAACP takeover
Thurgood Marshall takes over the legal team for the NAACP -
Defense Fund
The NAACP establishes a legal and educational defense fund -
South Carolina
NAACP attempted to take legal action against school in Clarendon County about the inferior conditions of African American schools -
NAACP endorses Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshalls strategy is endorsed by the NAACP which includes tackling segregation in education -
Washington DC
John Philip Sousa Junior High School was opened and several African Americans positioned for the school to be an integrated school however, the request was denied -
Kansas
The NAACP in Kansas challenged the law about segregation in elementary schools -
Delaware case petitioned
Delaware case was petitioned to challenge the inadequate condition in African American schools in Clayton, De. -
Delaware Case
Several cases are petitioned about the deplorable conditions in African American schools in Clayton De -
Virginia
African American students staged a walk out in protest of the conditions of Robert Russa Moton High School -
Conjoined cases
School segregation cases are compiled together from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington Dc -
Chief Justice is replaced
Unable to come to a unanimous decision by the end of the court term. Brown vs Board of education was tabled until the following term. In that time Chief Justice Fred Vinson died and was replaced by California governor Earl Warren. -
Supreme Court ruling
With a unanimous decision racial segregation in public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment