After Brown v. Board of Education
The segregation with the African Americans and whites was a huge turning point. It was never an easy progress trying to get schools and everyone okay with the fact that blacks and whites will now share everything. It wasn't easy convincing people that everyone is equal; and your color doesn't matter.
All the lawyers involved in the case.
The final conclusion from the Supreme Court:
"We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We believe that it does."
-U.S. Supreme Court
Some members of the Chamber Commerce had a different view:
""The [Brown v. Board of Education] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, however much we dislike it, is the declared law and is binding upon us. We think that the decision was erroneous... However, we must in honesty recognize that, because the Supreme Court is the Court of last resort in the country, what it has said must stand until there is a correcting constitutional amendment or until the Court corrects its own error." -The board of directors of the Little Rock, Arkansas Chamber of Commerce, 1959
This case took years and years to try and get the Supreme Court alright with all of this. Even after they finally got every state in the United States alright with the situation everyone was still not okay with it. Kids at school weren't okay with it; the whites did not want the blacks involved with them.