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Where was the Brown vs. The Board of Education ruling applied?

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Restricted in application to de jure (legally imposed) segregation, the Brown rule was applied mainly to Southern school systems. After strong resistance, which led to such incidents as the 1957 Little Rock , Ark., school crisis, integration spread slowly across the South, under court orders and the threat of loss of federal funds for noncompliance.

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