During the last decades of the 19th and the first of the 20th, Tennessee, like other southern states, passed laws and constitutional amendments establishing Jim Crow: racial segregation in public facilities, restrictions of voting for blacks, and similar measures. There were few violent disturbances in Franklin County compared to many other localities, but it was not until a decade after the historic "Brown v. Board of Education" court decision that the county's schools were desegregated in 1964 when a lawsuit was won in Sewanee, Tennessee.