Abstract
This chapter discusses the US Supreme Court's decision to prohibit segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education. Principals and coaches at KHSAL member schools realized that the decision could undermine their very existence, and talk of desegregation raised a litany of questions: When will it happen? Will black schools now play white schools? Will black schools be closed immediately? These questions were frightening in places where segregation was the only law the people had ever known. But the future was clear to Whitney Young, who told his faculty and students: “Segregation created Lincoln Institute. Integration will destroy it.” Meanwhile, the Lincoln basketball team, behind John Cunningham, won the 1955 KHSAL state championship.
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