In Brown v. Board of Education new Chief Justice Earl Warren argued to his colleagues that if the U.S. Supreme Court were to uphold segregation in public schools it could do so only on the theory that blacks were inherently inferior to whites. Warren convinced the Court to unanimously rule that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional because any justice voting to uphold segregation would now be cast in the awkward situation of: Group of answer choices appearing to support the federal government. appearing to support racism. appearing to oppose racism. appearing to support the state government. appearing to support their personal beliefs.

Until the decision of Brown v. Board of Education, African-American children were denied entry to all-white schools in Topeka, due to legislation providing for separate but equal services. In Plessy v. Ferguson the principle of separate but equal was granted legal status with the Supreme Court decision of 1896.

Chief Justice Earl Warren questioned the racial segregation in schools as n ae fourteenth and challenged it indicating the fourteenth amendment, which provides equal protection under the law and the Court held that segregated race-based institutions were unfair.