Read the excerpt from the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.

We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. . . .

[The courts must issue] orders and decrees . . . to admit to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed the parties to these cases.

Brown v. Board of Education,

Chief Justice Earl Warren,

1954–1955

Which phrase did state leaders who were opposed to integration use to drag out the process of desegregation?

A."separate but equal"

B."with all deliberate speed"

C."are inherently unequal"

D."racially nondiscriminatory"