| With Brown v. Board, Cheif Justice Earl Warren made segregation illegal. The Court unanimously found that Plessy v. Fuerguson ("separate but equal" legally established segregation), was void because separate but equal is "inherently unequal." Unfortunately they requested that this new law be implemented with "all deliberate speed," and this took many generations (they should've set a time like within 3-4 months or something). There was a southern resistence with the resurgence of the KKK, but the Civil Rights Movement was on the right track.
By the way, Thurgood Marshall (later the first black man on the Supreme Court) represented the NAACP in this case. |