Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education Case Brief - Rule of Law: The constitutional mandate to desegregate public schools did not require all schools in a district to reflect the district's racial composition, but the existence of all-black or all-white schools must not be shown to be the result of segregation policies. ; Petitioner Swann sued, and the District Court ordered that the school board provide a desegregation … United States Supreme Court. Everything a person required could be found at the nearby … v. Swann et al., also on certiorari to the same court. Finally, Jack Boger, the former dean of the UNC School of Law, explores desegregation litigation between the Swann case in 1971 and Belk v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in 2002. 281 Argued: October 12, 1970 Decided: April 20, 1971 [ Footnote * ] Together with No. Suburban communities were thought to be utopian and self-sustaining societies. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971, established court-ordered busing of students as a constitutional means of desegregating public schools.The case originated in the combined Charlotte-Mecklenburg County school system in 1965, when attorney Julius L. Chambers filed suit on behalf of ten pairs of African American parents. That is, Brown v. However when the Charlotte-Mecklenburg's plan was not efficient enough. One example was the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, system in which approximately 14,000 black students attended schools that were either totally black or more than 99 percent black. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools. 402 U.S. 1. Schools were ordered by district courts to create desegregation plans. Case Summary of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: Having implemented a desegregation plan, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system still had de facto segregation, with many African-American students still attending many schools that were at least 99% African-American. In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of A summary and case brief of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971), including the facts, issue, rule of law, holding and reasoning, key terms, and concurrences and dissents. Decided: April 20, 1971 [*] 431 F.2d 138, affirmed as to those parts in which it … 349, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education et al. SWANN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION(1971) No. The Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education was a case involving segregation in the school systems. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education – 1971 When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially restrictive covenants could no longer be enforced through the courts, those that could move into suburban housing did so. After the Supreme Court's decision in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, little progress had been made in desegregating public schools. 281) Argued: October 12, 1970. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, case in which, on April 20, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States.