Abstract
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued its historic decision declaring state-supported segregated schools unconstitutional.1 In the decade following that decision a few Deep South states successfully resisted the Court's implementing order of 1955 requiring state schools to admit pupils on a racially nondiscriminatory basis all deliberate speed,2 but several Southern and border states initiated the process of desegregation. Integrating large numbers of Negroes and whites soon after the Court's rulings, the border state of Missouri received much praise for its progress.3 However, desegregation slowed down each succeeding year and essentially came to a halt by 1958. Indeed, some resegregation of schools occurred, especially in the urban areas, and in 1964 less than one-half of Missouri's Negro pupils were actually attending schools with whites.4 The following paragraphs elaborate the limited progress and some of the problems of public school integration in Missouri from 1954 to 1964.
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