On This Day In Alabama History: Judges Order School Desegregation

Alabama News Center | March 22, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Graydon Rust Alabama 200

March 22, 1967

A federal three-judge panel presiding over Lee v. Macon County Board of Education ordered every school district in Alabama not under an existing court order to desegregate. A pivotal civil rights case with national implications, Lee v. Macon County Board of Education started in 1963 as a suit by attorney Fred Gray on behalf of 14 black students who had been denied admission to all-white Tuskegee High School. The lawsuit later expanded to include all the state’s primary and secondary schools, two-year postsecondary schools and public universities. In December 1967, the decision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Wallace v. United States.

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