The Supreme Court ruled today that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Speaking for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Earl Warren said education must be available to all on an equal basis with regard to race, color, or creed.
Today’s decision was hailed here as the most important in the field of race relations in America since Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. Major Jewish organizations for many years have insisted that racial segregation in public education is unconstitutional. The court described segregation, wherever it is practised in the United States, as “a denial of equal protection of the laws.”
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