If the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, why did it take nearly one hundred years for segregation to be eradicated in the South?

It took so long for the Supreme Court to apply the Fourteenth Amendment to state authorities because of a deeply-embedded principle at the heart of the original Bill of Rights that it was state governments that needed protection from federal overreach.

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the intolerable acts were punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party. in great britain, these laws were referred to as the coercive acts.