Quest to Define Collegiate Desegregation: Black Colleges, Title VI Compliance, and Post-Iadamsr Litigation - Hardcoverby M. Christopher Brown (Author), Robert M. Hendrickson (Afterword by), Charles V. Willie (Foreword by) In 1954, the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education Topeka (347 U. S. 483) overturned the prevailing doctrine of separate but equal introduced by Plessy v. Ferguson (163 U. S. 537) fifty eight years prior. By the time Brown was decided, many states had created dual collegiate structures of public education, most of which