Question

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:________

Answer 1

supporting white supremacy.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the case Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court had to decide whether segregation in public education was constitutional. Although the judges held several different opinions at first, they all eventually agreed that segregation in school could not be constitutional. Chief Justice Earl Warren was instrumental for this case. In the unanimous opinion, Chief Justice Warren argued that the only way in which segregation could be supported was by believing that white people were superior to black people. Therefore, any justice that voted to uphold segregation would be, in practice, supporting white supremacy.