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The Brown decision declared the system of legal segregation unconstitutional. But the Court ordered only that the states end segregation with “all deliberate speed.” This vagueness about how to enforce the ruling gave segregationists the opportunity to organize resistance.
ALL DELIBERATE SPEED. Chief Justice earl warren achieved a unanimous decision in brown v. board of education (1954) by assuring that enforcement of school desegregation would be gradual. Ordinarily, state officials found to be violating the Constitution are simply ordered to stop.
Apr 25, 2004 · The following year, in an opinion known as Brown v. Board of Education II, the Court declared that the transition to integration must occur “with all deliberate speed.”
From “Separate but Equal” to “With All Deliberate Speed” The Supreme Court’s May 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson cemented the Jim Crow social order in its declaration that separate spaces for Black and White Americans were “equal.”
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and its legal offspring, the Legal Defense and Educational Fund, developed a systematic attack against the doctrine of separate but equal. The campaign started at the graduate and professional educational levels. The attack culminated in five separate cases gathered together und...
Aware of the gravity of the issue and concerned with the possible political and social repercussions, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case argued on three separate occasions in as many years. The Court weighed carefully considerations involving adherence to legal precedent, social-science findings on the negative effects of segregation, and the ma...
The Supreme Court announced its unanimous decision on May 17, 1954. It held that school segregation violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The following year the Court ordered desegregation with all deliberate speed.
Mar 18, 2024 · Arguments were to be heard during the next term to determine just how the ruling would be imposed. Just over one year later, on May 31, 1955, Warren read the Court's unanimous decision, now referred to as Brown II, instructing the states to begin desegregation plans "with all deliberate speed."
Cartoon by Jon Kennedy, Little Rock Arkansas Democrat, May 17, 1954. (Courtesy of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette )
