The 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education marks a watershed moment for the Civil Rights Movement. For many, it destroyed the legal basis for Jim Crow. This week, your task is to consider the Supreme Court decision's real impact on the lives of African Americans by the following decade. What social, political, and/or economic changes occurred by 1960s directly as a result of Civil Rights legislation? What remained the same? According to Civil Rights activists, what were the obstacles for the movement? What were the solutions? 

The Supreme Court decision constitutionally sanctioned laws barring African American form

boarding same buses, sharing schools and many other public facilities with the Whit Americans.

This was commonly referred to as "Jim Crow" laws. Separate but equal doctrine was also

established and it was meant to stand for the next six decades.

A greater equality for blacks was gained at that time. A legislation was put in place to bring to an

end discriminatory employment, segregation, black voter segregation and housing practices. In

the Northern states, the Jim Craw laws were never adopted, but still, black people faced

discrimination. Among the obstacles faced by the movement is the frequent opposition which

they dealt with through nonviolent means.

Citation

Wasserman, L. M., & Connolly, J. P. (2015). United States Supreme Court Justices' Voting in

Systemic Racial Discrimination Cases in Education. The Urban Lawyer, 47(1), 1-84.