Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell (1963)

In 1961, African American parents sued the Board of Education of Oklahoma City to end intentional school segregation. After nearly 30 years of court-directed plans to achieve desegregation, first in 1972, then a student reassignment plan in 1985, the Supreme Court held in 1991 that the Board had achieved unitary status and eliminated the vestiges of segregation. 498 U. S. 237.