The decision fueled an intransigent, violent resistance during which Southern states used a variety of tactics to evade the law. African Americans gained the formal, if not the practical, right to study alongside their white peers in primary and secondary schools.
The NAACP’s legal strategy against segregated education culminated in the 1954 Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (107.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
