![Andy Clayton-King Alex Cruz-Guzman, who in 2015 became a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, poses on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 in Edina, Minn. (AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/a5fbc8f25ea147e79fd4a28d18cee6b2/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
Alex Cruz-Guzman, who in 2015 became a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, poses on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 in Edina, Minn. (AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King)
![Perry Aycock FILE - Fifth graders of the West Greene Elementary School in Snow Hill, N.C., study history in an integrated classroom with teacher Charlaron May, March 5, 1969. The school is the first in the eastern Carolina community to be fully integrated. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Perry Aycock, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/9256a87d941f40049b57296eba3c89d4/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Fifth graders of the West Greene Elementary School in Snow Hill, N.C., study history in an integrated classroom with teacher Charlaron May, March 5, 1969. The school is the first in the eastern Carolina community to be fully integrated. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Perry Aycock, File)
![Harold L. Valentine FILE - Students from Charlotte High School in Charlotte, N.C., ride a bus together, May 15, 1972. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Harold L. Valentine, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/2a2f450722ce42118e7cc3add2a596ad/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Students from Charlotte High School in Charlotte, N.C., ride a bus together, May 15, 1972. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Harold L. Valentine, File)
![Uncredited FILE - Thurgood Marshall is seen, Aug. 22, 1958, outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/c8f72c4b2b374f518e2b8d52b36b3637/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Thurgood Marshall is seen, Aug. 22, 1958, outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo, File)
![Andy Clayton-King Alex Cruz-Guzman, who in 2015 became a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, poses on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 in Edina, Minn. (AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/f2eed5dc2fa64f2fb68b0e8a09a754a5/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
Alex Cruz-Guzman, who in 2015 became a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, poses on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 in Edina, Minn. (AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King)
![Peter Bregg FILE - Children smile from window of a school bus in Springfield, Mass., as court-ordered busing brought Black children and white children together in elementary grades without incident, Sept. 16, 1974. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Peter Bregg, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/04b00e5909864a24bcadf71c23fa452d/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Children smile from window of a school bus in Springfield, Mass., as court-ordered busing brought Black children and white children together in elementary grades without incident, Sept. 16, 1974. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Peter Bregg, File)
![Anonymous FILE - Mothers carrying protest signs accompany their children to Graymont Elementary School in Birmingham, Ala., which was opened on an integrated basis, Sept. 4, 1963. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/bcf8cac5e30947f7a735b4712bb6e982/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Mothers carrying protest signs accompany their children to Graymont Elementary School in Birmingham, Ala., which was opened on an integrated basis, Sept. 4, 1963. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo, File)
![Jae C. Hong FILE - Joshua Beltran drinks his milk in the cafeteria area at Kingsley Elementary School, Jan. 13, 2015, in Los Angeles. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/5f5a1f0579c447f8b98676387b0cc5cd/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Joshua Beltran drinks his milk in the cafeteria area at Kingsley Elementary School, Jan. 13, 2015, in Los Angeles. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
![Jim Bourdier FILE - Faced with a human barricade of Jackson, Miss., police, demonstrators run from scene, May 31, 1963. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/a7a67ca124074e06b8689d2b404b71af/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Faced with a human barricade of Jackson, Miss., police, demonstrators run from scene, May 31, 1963. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier, File)
![Wilfredo Lee FILE - Joseph Webb, center; Kristina Carr, right; and Kaelyn Korovich, left, read outside their classroom at Air Base Elementary School, June 4, 2009, in Homestead, Fla. The school was one of the first in Miami-Dade County to integrate Black students. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/2e59a393df0f435c90c58d7332a805cb/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Joseph Webb, center; Kristina Carr, right; and Kaelyn Korovich, left, read outside their classroom at Air Base Elementary School, June 4, 2009, in Homestead, Fla. The school was one of the first in Miami-Dade County to integrate Black students. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
![Alvan Quinn FILE - White and Black children mix freely on the playground outside a school in a racially mixed neighborhood, Oct. 18, 1957, in Detroit. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Alvan Quinn, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/93d35b1ec99940de91e4bdba41e5adbb/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - White and Black children mix freely on the playground outside a school in a racially mixed neighborhood, Oct. 18, 1957, in Detroit. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Alvan Quinn, File)
![Lm Otero FILE - Third-grade students do school work during class at Hanby Elementary School, Feb. 15, 2011, in Mesquite, Texas. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/be4b6906108d4b70aa0ca529e72f4bd3/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Third-grade students do school work during class at Hanby Elementary School, Feb. 15, 2011, in Mesquite, Texas. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
![William J. Smith FILE - The statue of Abraham Lincoln dwarfs seven Black students from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., as one of the students, Terrance Roberts, places a wreath at the statue's base during a visit to the Lincoln Memorial, Aug. 26, 1958, in Washington. From left, Mrs. L.C. Daisy Bates, Jefferson Thomas, Melba Pattillo, Carlotta Walls, Elizabeth Eckford, Minniejean Brown, Gloria Ray, and Terrence Roberts. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/6e0d2b8e6e9741f2853b77e102aed027/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - The statue of Abraham Lincoln dwarfs seven Black students from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., as one of the students, Terrance Roberts, places a wreath at the statue's base during a visit to the Lincoln Memorial, Aug. 26, 1958, in Washington. From left, Mrs. L.C. Daisy Bates, Jefferson Thomas, Melba Pattillo, Carlotta Walls, Elizabeth Eckford, Minniejean Brown, Gloria Ray, and Terrence Roberts. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)
![Paul Vathis FILE - Nancy Armstrong, a teacher at the Marshall Elementary School in Harrisburg, Penn., assists her students in the use of computers to aid them in their studies. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/5df9b09d8c1e4325bed6509d103342d0/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Nancy Armstrong, a teacher at the Marshall Elementary School in Harrisburg, Penn., assists her students in the use of computers to aid them in their studies. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands. In reality, school integration is all but gone, the victim of a gradual series of court cases that slowly eroded it, leaving little behind. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)