Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Brown II) decision places the responsibility of school desegregation with local authorities.

Supreme Court finds that school desegregation requires varied solutions best developed by school boards and courts. In its decision, the court also orders school desegregation to proceed with “all deliberate speed,” a seemingly contradictory phrase that actually comes to be interpreted as permission for districts to stall or even avoid desegregation efforts.