When the Supreme Court handed down its verdict desegregating public schools, a few states adhered to the law of the land and did so voluntarily. However, there were some misfit state legislatures in Southern states like Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina that tried to circumvent the results that Brown would bring about. For instance, some states adopted resolutions that rendered the court’s Brown decision “null and void” (child, please), and others gave out vouchers to white parents so that they could send their students to private schools. Some states passed laws that would sanction anyone who implemented desegregation. These states intentionally dragged their feet and resisted the Brown ruling with every legal, economic and social weapon they had, but the court’s second order in 1955 to implement the ruling with “all deliberate speed” eventually put a stop to all that cussin’ and fussin’.
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 16:19:00 +0000
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