Three of the most famous rulings of the Warren Supreme Court were Brown v. the Board of Education, Loving, and Miranda. These three were extremely controversial at the time and were at their roots racial equality.

For those who didn’t pay attention to the United States Supreme Court’s rulings by the “Warren Court 1953-1969”, Earl Warren was the Chief Justice whose court was inclined to go along with him even if the majority of the people’s centuries old beliefs disagreed.

Brown v. The Board of Education ruling said “Black Schools” had to have the same funding and quality as “White Schools.” Surprisingly the school was in Topeka, Kansas and it upset the southeastern states which had been segregating their funding, too. That was 1954 and in the same year they ruled in Bolling v. Sharpe that Congress’s mandated segregation of Washington D.C. Schools couldn’t be segregated. Brown was based on the 14th amendment and Bolling on the 5th. Brown II permanently integrated all schools in 1955. These started the race equality continuing today.

Loving was against the state of Virginia’s laws prohibiting interracial marriage. It was written during slave times and the ruling made a monumental change in culture in the old slave states. That was 1967.

The most famous to television crime show watchers is Miranda v. Arizona which requires someone being arrested to be told they can have a lawyer before questioning. Their decision was based on the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. This was aimed at giving the poor an opportunity to have a lawyer at questioning and in court.

Imagine how life would be without the activist Warren Court.