Southern school desegregation was driven more by Congress and the executive than by Brown.

Evidence

Similarly, when the goals of judicial policy are achieved, one cannot always assume that judicial decisions produced the effects. The late 1960s, for example, witnessed a rapid and sweeping desegregation of Southern schools, as required by Brown. But congressional legislation and executive enforcement had more to do with the change than Brown did. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3209

Categorization

• XREF: Counterintuitive against the standard civil-rights narrative that Brown alone desegregated the South — useful for the separation-of-powers section of the course.