The landmark case was Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954 ... nation's first African American Supreme Court Justice. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion read on May 17, 1954.

Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers the Supreme ... equal" doctrine in the field of public education. In Cumming v. County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528, the Gong Lum v. Rice, 275 U.S. 78 ...