Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education

Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Argued October 23, 1969
Decided October 29, 1969
Full case nameBeatrice Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Citations396 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

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.