Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education

Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 23, 1969 Decided October 29, 1969
Full case name	Beatrice Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Citations	396 U.S. 19 (more) 90 S. Ct. 29; 24 L. Ed. 2d 19
Holding
The still segregated southern schools must desegregate immediately.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall
Case opinion
Per curiam
Laws applied
Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education

Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 396 U.S. 19 (1969), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ordered immediate desegregation of public schools in the American South. It followed 15 years of delays to integrate by most Southern school boards after the Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.