After the Supreme Court's decision in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, little progress had been made in desegregating public schools. In Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, their school system in which approximately 14,000 black students attended schools that were either totally black or more than 99% black. Lower courts had experimented with a number of possible solutions when the case reached the Supreme Court.
In a unanimous decision, the Court held that they had violated previous commands directed at desegregating schools and blacks could go to any school they pleased. There was no such thing as a black school or a white school.
Decision: 9 votes for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. of Ed., 0 vote(s) against
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