What 1954 Supreme Court case made school segregation illegal?
School segregation in the United States 1954, when the Supreme Court ruling in "Brown v. Board of Education" ended "de jure" segregation in the United States. In the decade following "Brown," the South resisted enforcement of the Court's decision. States and school districts did little to reduce segregation, and schools remained almost completely segregated until 1968, after Congressional passage of civil rights legislation. Desegregation efforts reached their peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the South transitioned from complete segregation to being the nation's most integrated region. Parents of both African-American and Mexican-American students challenged school segregation in coordination with civil
Supreme Court Case Selections Act Supreme Court Case Selections Act The Supreme Court Case Selections Act of 1988 (, codified at ) is an act of Congress that eliminated appeals as of right from state court decisions to the Supreme Court of the United States. After the Act took effect, in most cases, the only avenue by which a litigant could obtain review of most lower court decisions was through the writ of certiorari, which was granted at the discretion of the Supreme Court, rather than available to the litigant as a matter of right. The Act amended 28 U.S.C. § 1257 to eliminate the