There was a major backlash for the south in this case
Linda Brown, a young girl who lived in Topeka, Kansas had to walk to a school over a mile away, crossing railway tracks. She had to go there just because she was black and could not got to the school around the corner because she was black.
The government decided to abolish segregation in schools after her parents took the case to supreme court and was passed by chief justice warren.
The NAACP backed the trial and Thurgood Marshall pushed the case for the Brown family.
After the trial segregation was banned in schools because it was against the constitution and left black children with a feeling of inferiority and thus ruined their life chances.
However the KKK were not happy and so influenced many of the southern schools to go private and reject the black students from joining "on the grounds of learning".
The south took advantage of the level of clarity and "interpreted" the rules in a different way.
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