Changes

== Law & Social Change ==

== Law & Social Change ==

It is debatable how much actual desegregation was a result of this ruling and related federal court decisions. This raises interesting questions as to the role of the Supreme Court in bringing about actual social change. The Court did not actively participate in the desegregating the schools until this case, sticking by the previous precedent set by Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education in 1899, which validated segregation. No one today will dispute the need to end the earlier system of segregated schools, and the importance of the decision, but many will query whether it changed that much, or if its use was rather in sending a definitive signal that the days of segregation and institutionalized racism were at a close. It can be said that the Supreme Court does not act as a functioning branch of the American government, but actually sways with the liberal public agenda.

It is debatable how much actual desegregation was a result of this ruling and related federal court decisions. This raises interesting questions as to the role of the Supreme Court in bringing about actual social change. No one today will dispute the need to end the earlier system of segregated schools, and the importance of the decision, but many will query whether it changed that much, or if its use was rather in sending a definitive signal that the days of segregation and institutionalized racism were at a close.

 

==Text of the Decision==

==Text of the Decision==

'''SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES'''

'''SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES'''