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I don't know if there is an easy answer to why it took so long, but in Brown II in 1955, the court attempted to clarify the rather vague language in Brown I. But part of that clarification was the mandate that desegregation be accomplished "with all deliberate speed" which left the door open for some serious foot dragging.

At the end of it all, however, IMHO, is the cultural stratification so ingrained in American thinking (not just the South though it was most obvious there) that it could not be overcome on any kind of real-time schedule, People who were born and raised with this sense of superiority could not imagine any other way of life.

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