The supreme court ordered the end to school segregation, and declared it illegal and unconstitutional in <span>Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the supreme court issued a land mark ruling that held that </span>state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. As a result the ruling <span>outlawed segregated public education facilities for blacks and whites at the state level, which came as a major victory for the civil rights movement. </span>
