Integrating Schools

By Zach_Baumann

  • Civil War ends

    Thirteenth Amendment is set into action to end slavery.

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Started the separate but equal movement.

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the doctrine of separate but equal.

  • Desegration of all schools

    The U.S. Supreme Court orders desegregation of all American schools.

  • First intergration

    Four African-American kids integrate into Huntsville city schools

  • Forcible desegregation

    The Civil Rights Act gives the federal government authority to forcibly desegregate schools.

  • Singleton v, Jackson

    The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that oversees Alabama orders the immediate desegregation of all schools.

  • Hereford v. Huntsville Board

    Made the Huntsville schools system desegregate teaching staffs.

  • Magnet schools

    Huntsville opens their first magnet school.

  • Freeman v. Pitts

    U.S. Supreme Court announces that federal oversight of desegregation should be temporary.