On June 5, 1956, a Montgomery federal court ruled that any law requiring racially segregated seating on buses violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. ... Montgomery's buses were integrated on December 21, 1956, and the boycott ended. It had lasted 381 days.
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.
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