The Civil Rights Act of 1964 superseded all state and local laws requiring segregation.

When did desegregation start and end?

Brown v. Bd. of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) - this was the seminal case in which the Court declared that states could no longer maintain or establish laws allowing separate schools for black and white students. This was the beginning of the end of state-sponsored segregation.

Is segregation still legal?

United States. De facto segregation in the United States has increased since the civil rights movement, while official segregation has been outlawed. The Supreme Court ruled in Milliken v.