These judges carried out the Supreme Court's historic desegregation decisions of 1954 and 1955, and sometimes made history by expanding on them.

With the exception of the desegregation decisions, few decisions were unanimous.

The Chief Justice valued that decision more than his own 1964 "one person, one vote" opinion -even above his landmark 1954 school desegregation decision.

Only a few months before, the Supreme Court had handed down its desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

The first hour concludes with television footage of the racial confrontations in the South after the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision.

It was the first time that housing and education had been combined in a single desegregation decision.

April 18 - Florida Senate votes to consider Supreme Court's desegregation decisions "null and void".

It was 1955, a year after the Brown desegregation decision, and the first stirrings of Southern change were in the air.

The desegregation decision in the Brown case wasn't counterproductive, was it?

The Court's equation of Shaw claims with our desegregation decisions is inappropriate for another reason.