ABSTRACT
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) is important for several reasons. This case is important because it firmly established the Warren Court (the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Earl Warren) as perhaps the most activist court in US history. Although the district court agreed that segregation had a negative impact on Black students, it upheld the allowance of segregated schools based on the “separate but equal” precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson. Unfortunately, the practice of segregation was not easily overcome. Even though the US Supreme Court overturned the practice of legal segregation, getting the schools to integrate was a much more difficult task.
