The Brown vs Board of Education was a decision about school. The courts declared government could not provide "equal but separate" educations. Schools had to desegregate.
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White Americans in the South reacted very badly to the Brown decision. In Little Rock, Arkansas, a white mob refused to let nine black children peacefully enter the school. Governer Faubus called on the National Guard to prevent the children entering little rock high school. Eventually, all schools in the deep south were closed as a radical measure to defy the brown decision.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896),
While the Dred Scott decision, which ruled a slave as property could accompany his master to a free state yet still remain a slave pleased southerners, it greatly agitated northerners. The Raid on Harperâ??s Ferry by radical abolitionist, John Brown inflamed southerners. The two incidents drew sharp divisions between the north and south and paved the way to the American Civil War.
After a year boycott in Montgomery Alabama the city bus system gave in to allowing bus rider sit any place in bus. The Brown decision, and the 1964 civil rights act.
Racial moderates were southern politicians, that downplayed race while gradually accomodating racial reform. They found bigger issues in the south than race. Prior to the decision of Brown v. Board of Education, they dominated southern politics