Black students, their parents and advocates have used the US court system to create equal opportunity for Black students in public schools, with landmark court cases including Roberts v. The City of Boston (1894), Plessy v. Ferguson (1954), Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954), Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York (1992), Abbott v. Burke (1981), and Gary B. vs Synder (2020) all directly
