 St. Augustine nevertheless still attracted tourists, and eventually became a destination for families traveling in automobiles as new highways were built and Americans took to the road for annual summer vacations.The tourist industry soon became the dominant sector of the local economy.In late 1963, nearly a decade after the Supreme Court ruling in "Brown v. Board of Education" that segregation of schools was unconstitutional, African Americans were still trying to get St. Augustine to integrate the public schools in the city.