 On average White students received 17–70 percent more educational expenditures than their Black counterparts.The first Federal legal challenge of these unequal segregated educational systems would occur in California "Mendez v. Westminster" in 1947 followed by "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954.The decision of "Brown v. Board of Education" would lead to the desegregation of schools by federal law, but the years of lower education, segregation of household salaries between whites and people of color, and racial wealth gaps would leave people of color at a disadvantage to seek proper equal education for generations to come.