The US Supreme Court upheld broad judicial powers, including busing, to dismantle legally segregated school systems. The case grew from Black families' efforts to make educational equality real in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. The decision recognized that formally removing discriminatory rules was insufficient when school assignments and institutional practices continued to reproduce the consequences of state-imposed segregation.
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The Swann judgment prohibited courts from using busing to dismantle legally segregated school systems.
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The judgment upheld busing as one of the available remedies for state-imposed school segregation.