text and meaning of the 14th amendment, which guaranteed equal protection. and the supreme court in the shroud versus west virginia case said what is this amendment but that the law shall be the same for the black and the white? and the supreme court unfortunately backtracked from that clear principle in the plessy decision and a horrific decision, which allowed separate by equal. brown versus board corrected that in 1954, of course. corrected it on paper. we re still seeking to achieve racial equality. the long march is not over. brown versus board as i said publicly many times before, the single greatest moment in supreme court history by in so many ways, the uminity that
and meaning of the 14th amendment, which guaranteed equal protection. the supreme court in the strouder versus west virginia case in 1880, jury selection case, had said, what is this amendment but that the law shall be the same for the black and the white? and the supreme court, unfortunately, backtracked from that clear principle in the plesey decision in a horrific decision which allowed separate but eke result. then brown v. board corrected that in 1954. of course, corrected it on paper. it s still decades and we re still seeking to achieve racial equality, the long march for racial equality is not over. brown v. board as i said publicly many times before, the single greatest moment in supreme court history by, in so many ways, the unanimity that chief justice warren achieved which is just a great moment.