ABSTRACT
There is no one moment that the modern extreme right came into existence. But the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision on Brown v. Board of Education is crucial. In deciding to rule that segregation in schools was unconstitutional, the Court not only struck a death-blow against the way in which the white South had organized relations between the races. It was crucial to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. It was central to the future of both the Democratic and Republican parties. It was key too for the extreme right.
