Just a few months after the Supreme Court decided in "Brown v. Board of Education" that segregation in public schools was "inherently unequal" and unconstitutional, a principal from a New York City suburb invited students from several southern schools to see an integrated school in action. Principal Willis Thomson of New Rochelle High School decided to invite white students from Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., high schools after strikes protesting desegregation efforts occurred in those cities. For several days, students attended classes, club meetings, and football practices to see how an integrated school worked. In general, the students returned home with a more positive outlook on integration, one remarking that the experience was "beyond [his] greatest expectations." Less than six years later, African American parents of eleven students in this same school district would file suit in federal court claiming their children were being forcibly sent to a segregated school. What had happened? How could a school district once highlighted by Voice of America as a "shining example of integrated education" end up in federal court for segregation?