African Americans in North Carolina have fought for equality since their earliest arrival in the state. Supreme Court of North Carolina 1960 cases.The following decisions show how the high court has wrestled with some of history's biggest social, legal, and political issues. The NC Civil Rights Trail is your gateway to significant sites in North Carolina's and our country's story. The NAACP's legal strategy against segregated education culminated in the 1954 Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.