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 o flaw, therefore, has a tendency to [harm] 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 the reasoning in this decision?

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1Racial segregation was ended in elementary schools but not in higher grades.

2Southern states were required to ensure the economic and social equality of all races.

3 Southern states were forced to end all racial segregation in public schools.

4 Southern states were permitted to maintain racially segregated schools so long as these were equally good.