Images Fractured Court, Monumental Decision: Earl Warren's Unifying Role in Brown

 
 

Linda Brown in her new school after the ruling bearing her name  ideally enables the desegregation of public schools across the country. Many black children were still unable to attend white schools even after the  Supreme Court's ruling based on the effects of Brown II, which handed authority down to local school officials.  In the South, desegregation was met with fierce opposition. Image Source Accessed 23 April 2003

 
 

Political cartoon from the Chicago Defender suggesting the Brown ruling  was the release from the shackles of slavery, or inequality, for African-Americans. Image Source Accessed 23 April 2003

 
 

Then-Governor of California Earl Warren with Dwight D. Eisenhower  and Richard M. Nixon in 1952.  Warren and Eisenhower met for the  first time during this year at the Republican National Convention.  Eisenhower appointed  Warren to the high Court in late 1953, after the death of Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Image Courtesy of the California State Archives Accessed 12 April 2003

 
 
 

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