Who was the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice when the decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was delivered in 1954?
On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous (9–0) ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court held that state sanctioned segregation of public schools for black and white students was a violation of the 14th amendment of U.S. Constitution and was therefore unconstitutional.
The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. The Warren Court's unanimous decision specifically stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
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Jon Woolery
Stoic Kitty, an amendment by definition changes, or adds to, the Constitution as originally written and intended.
Clayton Dean Brannon
He was appointed to the job by Dwight D Eisenhower. He did not want to but he had promised him the next opening.
Ken Putnam
edward goodnow,
Birthright Citizenship was NEVER the intent of the Framers
And this poorly worded amendment was intended to make all freed slaves born in the US Citizens
Not every pregnant 3rd world woman who can make it into the US legally or not
edward goodnow
Stoic Kitty, not necessarily for him/her....listen everyone ask a trump voter if they think democracy works or not...most alt-right people that voted for trump WOULD PREFER a dictatorship....I have had dozens of Trump supporters tell me that democracy is the issue with this country...which to me and should be to most people...the most un-American thing ever said...this country was founded upon the principles of democracy...yet many of the people like Stoic Kitty...would prefer we demolish those principles and anoint King Trump
edward goodnow
Stoic Kitty, BTW just a few years earlier was the case of the Skopes Monkey case...concerning the teaching evolution in schools....do you also think that evolution is false? Human knowledge, human empathy, human ideals change over time. The beauty of the Constitution is that...these changes were considered....Adams, Washington, Franklin, and others knew even in their own time that human sensibilities change over time...and that a responsible government needed to be able to change as well...whereas the monarchies of the time were beholden to religous institutions and the notions of the families that ran their governments....they knew the best way to ensure survival of the system was to make it capable of evolving....without evolution everything will eventually become extinct
edward goodnow
Stoic Kitty, are you a racist? I bet you are a racist....I bet your skull is buzzed clean...bet you have prison Aryan tattoos and get rock hard at the idea of burning a cross while breathing through a sheet. Also bet you are divorced because you used to beat your wife too....and that your most prized posession is your Glock
edward goodnow
Stoic Kitty, @ Sounds like you are a racist
anthonygriffin
It's ironic that the decision of the Supreme Court about the case of "Brown vs The Board of Education" took place in Topeka, Kansas. But the actual desegregation of schools started with the "Little Rock 9" in the state of Arkansas.
Cheryl McMeekin
Good question, didn't know that.
Jerry Haskins
Got it
Carmen Hays
smartypants, violate is not add to or change, I think she is more far right than you are gleaning.
Carmen Hays
Stoic Kitty, if you investigate you will learn that the forefathers intended the constitution to be a living document that would grow with the country. Can't keep it in diapers all it's life, girl.
Janice Fish
Great question
Shoy Verona Sinclair
Got it
Rachel Weatherby
Daniel Halley, I also knew it was a Warren - I guessed the right one!!
Henry Rex Bils
I noticed how they neglected to include Hamilton Berger as one of their Earl Warren and Warren Burger choices. There is always someone's memory that would have them wondering, "was that EW, WB or HB?"