The passage below is from the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). ____________________________________
Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law..
Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [harm] the educational and mental development of [African-American] children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school system.... ____________________________________
What was the impact of this decision?
A) States were required to ensure the economic and social equality of all races. B) States ended segregation in elementary schools but not in higher grades. C) States were permitted to maintain racially segregated schools so long as these were equal in quality. D) States were forced to end all racial segregation in public schools.
