Integration of schools in North Carolina

  • Catholic schools began desegergation

  • Brown's case began

    Brown's case began
  • Dr. David Jones became the first African-America on the school board

  • Desegregation of schools was now legal

    Desegregation of schools was now legal
  • Greensboro became the first first city in the south to desegregate schools

  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill admits their first african-american student

  • President Lyndon signed the Civil Rights Act

  • Supreme Court refuses to allow public school systems to avoid desegregation by creating new, mostly or all-white "splinter districts."

  • 12 black parents filed a legal suit demanding desegregation

  • Complete desegregation in Greensboro