Title: IMPORTANT COURT CASES IN BLACK HISTORY FACTS
Headings: Important Court Cases in Black History
Important Court Cases in Black History
Introduction - Court Cases in Black History
List of Important Court Cases in Black History

Content: Missouri offered to pay for his education at a law school in a different state. The court decided that Missouri would have to build a law school for African-Americans equal to the all white law school or allow Gaines to attend the University of Missouri. This precedent meant governments wishing to maintain separate facilities for blacks and whites would have to do so at a great cost. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) - One of the most important and famous court decisions in black history. The U.S. Supreme Court in this case reversed the courts earlier "separate but equal" ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case in so far as segregation of public schools is a denial of and individual's rights. Browder v. Gayle (1956) - In this case Alabama's Middle District Court ruled that racial segregation on buses in Montgomery Alabama was illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the lower court's decision setting a precedent that racial segregation is illegal not only in busing but in all public areas. Loving v. Virginia (1967) - This case involved Richard Loving, a white man and Mildred Loving, a black woman, from Virginia who had been sentenced to jail for one year for marrying each other. The decision of the United States Supreme Court in this case struck down state laws which made inter-racial marriage illegal. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971) - The United States Supreme Court ruled that the busing of students to promote integration in public schools was legal.