How did the phrase in the Supreme Court's Brown decision unintentionally permit Southern schools

to delay desegregation?

The answer is below

Explanation:

In the Brown vs Board of Education, that was otherwise known as Brown II, the Supreme Court ruled that, in order to abolish segregation in public schools, the lower federal courts were to “enter such orders and decrees consistent with this opinion as are necessary and proper to admit to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed the parties to these cases.”

However, the phrase "ALL DELIBERATE SPEED" in the rulings create ambiguous but crucial meaning, in which it was later defined and explain to mean "at a slow pace". This implies that, the process of abolishment of segregation is based on each states timetable.

Hence, while some states acted promptly according to the rulings, some states took and exploited the hole in the judgement to delay the end of segregation.

Therefore, the phrase "ALL DELIBERATE SPEED " in the Supreme Court's Brown decision unintentionally permit Southern schools to delay desegregation as it was translated to mean "Slow".

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