What was one major achievement of the civil rights movement during the 1940s or 1950s

One of the major achievements of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s was the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education Topeka in 1954. According to this court ruling, segregated schools were illegal and black children should be allowed to attend any school as students. This court ruling was a one of the major achievements of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s as it marked the end of the separate but equal doctrine in school that had been applied in education since Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).