Question

What effect did the decision in Brown v. Board of Education have on colleges in the South?

A. It had no effect on colleges.
B. It integrated colleges immediately.
C. It created new colleges in the South.
D. It led to a series of battles over integration.

Answer 1

D. It led to a series of battles over integration.

Step-by-step explanation:

The decision in Brown v. Board of Education had a significant impact on colleges in the South. Although the text of the Brown decision was about segregation at the elementary and secondary school level, the subtext was about justice and equality throughout the educational arena and the entire social system. As the Court decision began to be applied at the postsecondary level, the doors of colleges and universities that had been closed to African Americans were also flung open. However, it did not lead to immediate integration, and there were many battles over integration. So, the correct answer is D. It led to a series of battles over integration.

Answer 2

Answer: D. It led to a series of battles over integration.

Step-by-step explanation:

Brown v. Board of Education occured in 1954 and it was a Supreme Court case whereby the justices involved ruled that the segregation of children racially in the public schools was not constitutional.

The effect that this decision had on colleges in the South was that led to a series of battles over integration. It brought about the defiance by Southern Blacks to punitive Jim Crow laws, while the Southern whites supported segregation and this brought about standoff fir example, the one that occured in 1957 in Little Rock high school in Arkansas.