Thurgood Marshall predicted the end to all school segregation within five years of Brown v.

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In 1954, the United States Supreme Court ended school segregation via the landmark case of Brown v.

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Board of Education, ending school segregation, civil-rights activists came to see courts as the solution to the abuses of majority rule.

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Board of Education, in 1954, declaring school segregation unconstitutional.

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In some schools, segregation begins in elementary school.

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Oldham, where the school is planned, has a recent history of racial segregation.

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In the 1970s and 1980s, issues such as affirmative action and school busing still riled up many, but de jure racial segregation was no longer considered acceptable by most.

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