![]() Brooks, oldest US veteran of WWII, dies at 112 The Brown decision led to widespread public school desegregation and the eventual stripping away of Jim Crow laws that discriminated against Black Americans. Both cases argued that segregation laws violated the 14th Amendment’s right to equal protection. Ferguson ruling allowing racial segregation across American life stood as the law of the land until the Supreme Court unanimously overruled it in 1954, in Brown v. The ceremony began with cellist Kate Dillingham - a descendant of the dissenting justice - playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” while the audience sang along. ![]() Justice John Marshall Harlan was the only dissenting voice, writing that he believed the ruling “will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott Case” - an 1857 decision that said no Black person who had been enslaved or was descended from a slave could ever become a U.S. Justice Henry Billings Brown wrote in the 7-1 decision: “Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences.” Since the pardon board vote in November, “I’ve had the feeling that my feet are not touching the ground because my ancestors are carrying me,” he said. Keith Plessy, whose great-great-grandfather was Plessy’s cousin, called the event “truly a blessed day for our ancestors … and for children not yet born.” ![]() ![]() 3 white men guilty in Ahmaud Arbery killing face life sentences ![]()
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