This week marks the 50th anniversary of "Brown v. Board of Education" the Supreme Court decision integrating the public schools. Any decision to integrate the Supreme Court would take a little longer.
In 1954, only 24 percent of white people in the South approved of the decision. However, the South did not secede from the union because that would have required a visa to fly Delta to Atlanta.
The Brown decision struck down the old double-talk language that the races were "separate but equal," i.e. "Yes, we are all God's children but use that drinking fountain over there."
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The decision brought about integration on two levels — black kids to white schools, and Protestant kids to private Catholic schools.