They attacked segregation in public parks as well as Gov. George C. Wallace's 1963 inaugural speech in which he declared "segregation now, segregation forever."

This was the era of George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door declaring segregation forever and whites lynching blacks.

Here what we had was a case of the supreme court, well I'll say more about this later, but the supreme court declaring segregation by race to be unconstitutional and requiring that these decisions be recognized and enforced by relevant authorities.

He said he agreed with the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

In 1924, Sikeston built a segregated school to be used only by African American students until the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the landmark ruling of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 which declared segregation to be unconstitutional.

Boynton v. Virginia: In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation in public transit to be illegal.

The city was beginning to suffer financially from the boycott, and news of the case made its way to the Supreme Court, which had recently declared segregation illegal in Brown v. Board of Education.

The impetus behind this increase was probably provided by a decision given by the United States Supreme Court in 1954 which declared forced segregation unconstitutional in all public educational institutions.

He was surely that for most of his career, declaring "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever" at his first inauguration as governor of Alabama in 1963.

The United States Supreme Court had declared racial segregation constitutional in 1896, and the court also sanctioned the practice of defining anyone with any black ancestry as black.