The legal road to Brown

• 14th Amendment (1868)
• Plessy (1896)
• Gong Lum v. Rice (1927)
• Pearson v. Murray (Md. 1936)
• Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada (1938)
• Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Oklahoma (1948)
• Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
• McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950)
• Sweatt v. Painter (1950)

Brown & Companion Cases - Lower Courts

• Briggs v. Elliot (E.D. S.C. 1952)
• Brown (D. Kan. 1951)
• Davis (E.D. Va. 1952)
• Gebhart (Del 1952)

Brown S. Ct. Decisions

• Brown I (1954)
• Bolling v. Sharpe (1954)
• Brown II (1955)

The road after

• Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
• Griffin v. Sch. Bd. Prince Edward Cty (1964)
• Green v. Co. Sch. Bd. (VA) (1968)
• Alexander v. Holmes Cty. Bd. Ed. (1969)
• Swann v. Charlotte (1971)
• Wright v. City of Emporia (1972)
• Norwood v. Harrison (1973)
• San Antonio Sch. Dist. v. Rodriguez(1973)
• Keyes v. Denver Sch. Dist. No. 1 (1973)
• Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
• Pasadena Bd. Ed. v. Spangler (1976)
• Milliken v. Bradley (1977)
• Bakke (1978)
• California Proposition 209 (1997)
• Riddick v. Sch. Bd. Norfolk, Va .(4th Cir. 1986)
• Bd. Ed. Okla. City v. Dowell (1991)
• Freeman v. Pitts (1992)
• US v. Fordice (1992)
• Missouri v. Jenkins (1995) (Jenkins II)
• Hopwood v. Texas (5th Cir. 1996)
• Grutter (2003)
• Gratz (2003)
• Parents Involved v. Seattle Schools (2007)

See the chronology for more cases and for brief notes about each case.