*On this date in 1969, United States v. Montgomery County Board of Education was decided.
In this action, the United States District Court in Montgomery, Alabama, ordered the local Montgomery County Board of Education to desegregate the county school system's faculty and staff based on race.
This action commenced in May 1964 to end racial segregation in the public schools of Montgomery County, Alabama. The District Judge issued his initial order in 1964 requiring the integration of specific grades. He followed this with yearly proceedings, including reports by the school board, hearings, opinions, and court orders.
The 1968 court order addressed, among other things, faculty and staff desegregation and stipulated that the school board must strive toward a goal whereby "in each school, the ratio of white to Negro faculty members is substantially the same as it is throughout the system."
A panel of the Court of Appeals modified the order, and an equally divided Court of Appeals denied a petition for rehearing.
