by David Adler | Apr 29, 2022
Brown and racial equality in public education By David Adler In his unanimous opinion for the Supreme Court in the watershed case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Chief Justice Earl Warren asked the foundational question: “Does segregation of children in public...
by David Adler | Apr 22, 2022
The Brown decision and America’s commitment to equality By David Adler “If it was not the most important decision in the history of the court,” Justice Stanley Reed observed of Brown v. Board of Education, “it was very close.” The Supreme Court’s opinion in Brown,...
by David Adler | Apr 15, 2022
Earl Warren: Finding “The Notion of Equality” By David Adler President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s recess appointment of Earl Warren to the chief justiceship of Supreme Court on September 30, 1953, constituted a watershed mark in the history of the court. His leadership of...
by David Adler | Apr 8, 2022
The Brown decision: Twists and turns shape the Constitution By David Adler The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the most-celebrated civil rights decision in our nation’s history, is a reminder of the unpredictable twists and...
by David Adler | Apr 1, 2022
Justice Harlan’s imperishable dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson By David Adler Justice John Marshall Harlan was the only dissenter from the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, in 1896, in which the majority invoked the “separate but equal” test to...
by David Adler | Mar 25, 2022
Plessy v. Ferguson: An infamous landmark ruling By David Adler Not all landmark Supreme Court decisions are admirable. Some are frankly infamous, including Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1896, in Plessy, the court constitutionalized racial segregation in the South. The...
