Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

was constitutional. In the midst of the movement, the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overruled the Plessy v. Ferguson decision and ended segregation in schools. According to Alan Brinkley, Professor of History at Columbia University, “The following year, the Court issued another decision (known as “Brown II”) … that communities must work to desegregate their schools ‘with all deliberate speed…’” (796). Finally, in 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed. It established…