United States Supreme court justice Earl Warren addressed the ruling in the civil rights case Brown v. Board of education decision of 1954, Topeka Kansas. Segregation laws of public schools was in violation of the fourteenth Amendment section one, which states “ all persons born or naturalized in the Untied States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immuntites of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. This alone proves that not only was the fourteenth amendment disreguarded but was unconstitutional under this amendment. This decision was the beginning of the civil rights movement. It ended the notion of the law of the land “separate but equal” which was a court case set decades before. Earl Warren stated “ We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. . ."

During the court case Earl Warren referred to a phrase “ with all deliberate speed” of the way of the court case of Brown v. Bored. The Brown v. Board case was important and a pathway for the civil right movement but , it did not have a huge impact right away because it just asked for change with no date for them to succeed by. The southern states were not willing to change right away. They made it difficult to get the process going in such a way asking the attorney general to come up with plans how the desegregation of school was going to happen.The justices replied with the answer “with deliberate speed”. Even though in the ruling the court implied that changes needed to be