Reflections on Brown.

We celebrate the anniversary of a great second in our legal history. Fifty years ago, the greatest Court changed our law bearing upon race relations. (1) It did not, however, directly change the society that had made that law, nor did it plenteous alter the behavior of those who were conducted by it. It is important to detain that distinction in mind.

Brown I marked sole the beginning of the extremity of de jure segregation, the despicable legal vestige of slavery. In celebrating that point of time we need to remember that the primary subdue of the Court's decision, and the primary