The General Assembly used their courts and laws to adopt a policy of "Massive Resistance" and closed many schools in order to keep them from desegregating.
segregation
thurgood marshall
The groundbreaking civil rights decision Brown v. Board of Education was written by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Brown vs. The Board of Education- Supreme Court decision that made segregation in schools unconstitutional. Linda Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas.
The "separate but equal" doctrine was ruled uncostitional
Plessy v. Ferguson.
they smiled and went to bed (with there cat)
Public school segregation was unconstitutional.
West Virginia
they smiled and went to bed (with there cat)
Public schools should be integrated.
brown vs board of education