Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County v. Leach-Lewis. Virginia was a Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States.These recordings are part of a collection of records from Danville's civil rights movement, which resulted in hundreds of trials that lasted about a decade. The Supreme Court decreed a new approach in Green v. School Board of New Kent County, in 1968. A case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race. Bell (1927), Morgan v. Virginia: A state must have an exceedingly persuasive justification for applying a classification based on gender. Brown II, issued in 1955, decreed that the dismantling of separate school systems for Black and white students could proceed with all deliberate speed. View our recent cases below.