"For several years Chief Justice Earl Warren had been urging his fellow justices to chip away at segregation... He understood, though, that schools were more fraught. The unspoken issue at the core of the debate, he knew, was always sexual. It was always about white girls sitting in desks next to Black boys. The Southern farming class lived in mortal fear of Black men doing to them what the planters and overseers had done to Black women for 200 years.
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