African American Communities features a wealth of material documenting the history of black education and training in the United States. Documents sourced from The Atlanta History Center collection, for instance, detail the history of segregation and desegregation of schools in the Deep South during the mid-twentieth century. Of particular note is the document Brown v. Board of Education decision from 1954, which details the outcome of the landmark United States Supreme Court case where the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Other documents such as Conference - White House also refer to this important civil rights court case, while Miscellaneous publications on school desegregation, 1955-1961 features copies of pro-integration literature from the period, including the Southern Regional Council’s (SRC) periodical, New South..