In the U$.$S$.$ Supreme Court$$s $1954$ ruling in Brown v$.$ Board of Education of Topeka, what did the Supreme Court rule?

Group of answer choices

a$)$ Schools did not need to be desegregated.

b$)$ Schools needed to be desegregated.

c$)$ The decision whether to desegregate schools should be left to each individual state.

d$)$ None of the above.