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How did Southern states react to Brown v. Board of Education?

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Almost immediately after Chief Justice Earl Warren finished reading the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education in the early afternoon of May 17, 1954, Southern white political leaders condemned the decision and vowed to defy it.

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