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17 Southern States were required to segregate their schools.
Laws in 17 southern and border states (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri) and the District of Columbia required that schools were to be segregated. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
The US Surpreme court set aside a Kansas statute permitting cities of more than 15,000 to maintain separate schools for blacks and whites and ruled instead that all segregation in public schools is “inherently unequal” and that all blacks barred from attending public schools with white pupils are denied equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. -
"Freedom Schools"
The most prominent example of Freedom Schools was in Mississippi in August 1964, used as an alternative school for African americans. -
Segregation in Colleges
In 1960 black college students staged a sit-in at segregated public lunch counters in an effort to force desegregation. -
"Freedom Summer"
800 students gathered for a week-long orientation session at Western College for Women in June, to discuss bail money for whom violated the segregation law.
