Chief Justice Earl Warren: A Legacy of Equality

Chief Justice Earl Warren joined the courts right in the middle of one of the most important issues, racial segregation in public schools. His contribution to racial equality still stands as a testament to his role as an extraordinary leader. Racial segregation was not the only thing that the Warren Courts had an impact on; it also protected people's 1st Amendment rights as well as stirred up criminal procedure. The Warren Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and federal power. Chief Justice Earl Warren could achieve more than most presidents.
Warren proclaimed, “separate but equal doctrine rests on basic premise that the Negro race is inferior, ” but considering the intellect and argument of the black councilman Thurgood Marshall “proves they

On the other hand, that Amendment did not prohibit integration. In any case, the Court asserted that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal education today. The Warren Court was also credited with reading an equal protection clause into the Fifth Amendment in Bolling v. Sharpe, and holding that the Constitution requires active compliance. In Bolling v. Sharpe, underage negro petitioners, were denied admission into a school based solely on their race. In Loving v. Virginia, a black woman and a white man were married and charged with violating the state's anti miscegenation statute, which banned interracial marriages. The Lovings were found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail the trial judge agreed to suspend the sentence if the Lovings would leave Virginia and not return for twenty-five years. "Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the State, wrote Chief Justice Warren." That the state of Alabama re-created the Tuskegee City boundaries to eliminate most African