Discuss Ch15Part2 here

As some one who lives in the South, my perspective is somewhat different.  Without the courts and the police power of the federal government, I do not believe desegregation would have occurred at all, and without continued court intervention, justice in contexts such as the public schools will never happen.  Poor, rural schools in South Carolina are greatly underfunded and under-resourced (there is a  good recent documentary about this called "Corridor of Shame" (http://www.corridorofshame.com/case.php)  Thirty eight poor rural school districts brought suit against the state in a case called Abbeville County School District, et al. v. The State of South Carolina, et al. which is being tried today in the Clarendon County Courthouse, the very same Clarendon County involved in Briggs v. Elliot (one of the four cases joined with Brown v. Board of Education).

Many courts acted decisively, but the rulings were largely ignored.  Despite this, courts are still seen by many as the only way to effect positive change, and I tend to agree with this view.