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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Brown II), 349 U.S. 294 (1955)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 349 U.S. 294 (1955) ('Brown II'). The Supreme Court's implementation decision, remanding to the district courts to enter such orders as are necessary to admit children to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis 'with all deliberate speed.'
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- Record
- brown-v-board-ii-1955
- Type
- archive
- Trust tier
- A
- Status
- published
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The compliance standard with no floor in it.
Verbatim, from the opinion: the cases are remanded to the District Courts “to take such proceedings and enter such orders and decrees consistent with this opinion as are necessary and proper to admit to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed the parties to these cases.”
The phrase appears exactly once in the opinion. It names a pace rather than a date, and the pace is set by the party being ordered to move. Desegregation stretched across decades inside it.
Fetched and read directly. WR does not quote a famous phrase from memory.
Provenance
- Creator
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Published
- 1955
- Accessed
- 2026-07-13
- External record
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/349/294
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