What happened following the decision in Brown v. Board of Education?
Choose all answers that are correct.
A. All schools were integrated within the first year after the decision.
B. Most Southern communities refused to integrate schools.
C. Some communities closed their schools rather than integrate.
The correct answers are B. Most Southern communities refused to integrate schools.
C. Some communities closed their schools rather than integrate.
A is incorrect because it took as much as 10 years for all schools to start integrating. The southern communities were so angry that many closed schools before they would let African-Americans educate themselves. Some still opposed it but eventually had to end the practice.
