The passage below is from the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect
upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law..
Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to ſharm) the
educational and mental development of (African-American) children and to deprive
them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school
system
What was the impact of this decision?
O States were forced to end all racial segregation in public schools.
States ended segregation in elementary schools but not in higher grades.
States were required to ensure the economic and social equality of all races.
O States were permitted to maintain racially segregated schools so long as these were equal in quality.