In recent years, the schools have also benefited from $300 million in state aid related to a desegregation ruling, including $40 million this year, but that will end next year.

Swann, however, ran counter to the original 1954 desegregation ruling, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

In the summer of 1986, the school was closed after a desegregation ruling.

This list derives from one of the Court's landmark school desegregation ruling, Green v. New Kent County School Board, decided in 1968.

The case became a cornerstone in the efforts of the Federal judiciary to enforce Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's basic 1954 desegregation ruling.

They published a local black newspaper, the Arkansas State Press, which publicized violations of the Supreme Court's desegregation rulings.

The state of Arkansas, acting on a theory of states' rights, had adopted several statutes designed to nullify the desegregation ruling.

In an interview, Justice Young said he had long publicly supported the desegregation ruling.

The schools have also received tens of millions of dollar in state aid related to a desegregation ruling, but those payments will end next year.

The Supreme Court's historic desegregation ruling was already 20 years old - time enough, the courts said, for Destrehan and the surrounding area to comply.