Abstract:American legal education is predicated upon the assumption that legal meaning is found within the opinions that accompany judicial rulings. The history of the United States Supreme Court's desegregation decision suggests that reality is more complicated than the conventional wisdom suggests. Indeed, the iconic status of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was in significant measure a function of scholarly efforts to substitute a rationale -that the ruling was an attack upon white supremacy -for the Court's con… Show more
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