History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1853 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Brown II
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The idea
On May thirty-first, nineteen fifty-five, the Court's unanimous decision in Brown II instructed the states to begin desegregation plans with all deliberate speed, the National Archives records.
In practice
Southern school boards reading all deliberate speed as permission to wait.
Where people slip
Some districts integrated voluntarily, the anchor says; many resisted, as the next entries show.
Your place on the trail
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