... under the mandate of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Although the unanimous ruling declared that segregation in education was inherently unequal, many Southern politicians regarded the decision as a "clear abuse of judicial power" and ten years after the case only one percent of Negro students in the South attended desegregated schools. It was not until 1954 that the doctrine of ... in America's schools. Aided by the local chapter of the NAACP, a group of thirteen parents filed a class action suit against the Board of Education of Topeka Schools. Governor of Alabama George Wallac...

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