 Beginning in the Fall of 1954, following that May's Supreme Court decision of "Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas", Baltimore's "colored schools" system was dismantled gradually but increasingly year by year during the rest of the decade of the 1950s with small numbers of black students entering all the City's neighborhood/regional public high schools.However, "de facto" segregation replaced the "de jure" official policies and some schools still maintained their prior racial make-up.At Carver and Merganthaler Vo-Techs, despite their advanced programs, opportunities and curriculums, Carver remained almost exclusively all-black, while "Mervo" gradually increased its integration all through the next few decades and remains racially split / somewhat integrated today.