Question

In the Brown ruling, the Supreme Court required public schools to desegregate:

A. "with all deliberate speed."
B. "without regard to costs."
C. "when state governments agreed."
D. "within ten years of this order."

Answer 1

The correct answer is A)"with all delibrate speed."

Even though the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools needed to be integrated, several Southern states fought this ruling. For example, in Arkansas the governor used the Arkansas National Guard to stop nine African-American students from attending Central High School. This event, which took place in 1957, resulted in President Eisenhower using the US National Guard to escort these students into their classrooms.

This situation was somewhat common in the south, as several different public schools and universities did their best to delay integration.