35 POINTS! Do you think Brown v. Board of Education (1954) served its purpose of societal desegregation well? Or, do you think t
hat that lack of legal justification in the decision created a more litigious environment for civil rights law suits? Think about and justify your position. THIS ISN"T AN ESSAY JUST A FEW SENTENCES.
It did in the long run. In the short run it created many issues because there was a rise in extremism, in southern states especially. For starters, racists didn't want to desegregate their schools and public places so they didn't enforce the decision of the court throughout the entire next decade. Another thing is that organizations that were illegal like the Ku Klux Klan started getting power and harassing innocent African-Americans. It did create a litigious environment however because suddenly there were many more cases regarding desegregation and they had the court's precedence support so they were easily won because of the way the legal system works. It didn't lack legal justification, the only problem was enforcing it before the civil rights acts were passed and the country started battling racism systematically in all of the United States.
A poll tax was imposed on voters. I have found the poll tax receipt my mother paid back in the 1960s. Poor people could not afford to pay a tax to vote, because their income was so low.
