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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.


Sagot :

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

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.