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The term "sack cloth and ashes" is an idiomatic reference to garments indicating penitence or humility in the Hebrew faith, and he is saying that the state does not apologize for its stand on segregation, or in fact think that they are wronging the black students.

Here, the state could scarcely disguise the difference between the schools provided for whites as opposed to blacks, but claimed that it was not the intent of the laws.

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Q: In Brown v. Board of Education what does Mr Davis mean when he says South Carolina does not come to court in sack cloth and ashes?
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