Civil action case files, civil dockets, and civil case record books from US District Courts throughout the Midwest include lawsuits from the 1930s onward. Supreme Court of Illinois Decisions 1960.The NAACP's legal strategy against segregated education culminated in the 1954 Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. September 24, 1969, marked the beginning of one of the most infamous trials in US history for eight (later seven) activists linked to the protests. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in a broad array of private conduct including public accommodations, governmental services and education. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional. Wrote, "We may come to see the Negro as winning back for us the freedoms the Communists seemed to have lost for us. On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case Brown v. The civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and equality for African Americans that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s.