On this day in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled school districts must desegregate “now and hereafter.”
This came 15 years after the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which abolished racial segregation in schools “with all deliberate speed.”
In Mississippi’s Holmes County, and all-white school board mounted a years-long resistance campaign to integration by charging Black students tuition, burning crosses in front of the homes of Black families and arguing for a “Freedom of choice” doctrine.
A lawsuit filed by the NAACP made its way to the Supreme Court, which now had Thurgood Marshall as its first Black justice. In an 8-0 decision, Mississippi and the country at large were mandated to integrate public schools “at once.”
All this and more on “Prime.”
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