Complex sentence: Despite the decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954 which declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional, integration was slow to come, and schools for the deaf were no exception: the last desegregated in 1978,24 years after the decision.
Split into simpler sentences: Despite the decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954), which declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional, integration was slow to come. Schools for the deaf were no exception: the last desegregated in 1978,24 years after the decision.