Education

  • First school established

    The first school established in Boston, MA
  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
  • Brown II

    Court delegates task of carrying out school desegregation to district courts, ordering that desegregation occur with "all deliberate speed"
  • The Gray Commission

    Called for legislation to be enacted which barred state funds from being spent on school desegregation
  • The Stanley Plan

    Package of 13 statues adopted by US state of Virginia designed to ensure racial segregation in that state's public schools despite in the ruling of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education
  • Little Rock Nine

  • Greensboro Four

  • Green vs. New Kent County

    US Supreme Court case deaing with freedom of choice created to comply with mandate in Brown II
  • No Child Left Behind

    Day this law was passed