 Many Floridians viewed "Brown v. Board of Education" as "a day of catastrophe — a Black Monday — a day something like Pearl Harbor".Although the desegregation process in Florida brought less violence and upheaval than in other Southern states, Florida counties resisted integration "by every means", and local lawsuits in federal courts, on a county by county basis, were necessary for integration to take place.Leon County "fought school integration as tenaciously as any community in Florida".