t influential voice against segregation in the South was the AttorneyGeneral of the United States. He too felt that segregation went against the Constitution. ". . . . The color of a man's skin-like his religious beliefs, or his political attachments, orthe country from which he or his ancestors came to the United states-does not diminish oralter his legal stature or constitutional rights. . . ."(Source 2, Attorney General of the US). The Attorney General felt that a man should be judged by his character, not by pettydifferences one might have. All of these groups played a very influential role oninfluencing the Supreme Court decision to abolish the "Separate but Equal" law.The third compelling argument could be found in the pressures to remand"Separate but Equal" laws not only from various organizations previously mentioned, butfrom numerous court cases. The pressure to remand the "Separate but Equal" laws. Manycases, which dealt with segregation, impacted the outcome of the segregation laws greatly. In the Brown case of 1952, Mr. Carter argues that "no state has any authority under theequal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to use race as a factor in affordingeducational opportunities among its citizens. . . ."(Source 3, Brown 1952). Whenconfronted with this powerful statement, Justice Minton replies by saying the"classification here was based solely on race and color"(Source 3, Brown, 1952)? Fromthis, it is apparent that the side of Carter was taken by Justice Minton. This case provideda good basis for the cases to come. Another, larger case, was the Briggs v. Elliot case of1952. In this similar case, the prosecution points out that not only are the blacks beingdenied equal facilities, they are also being denied equal protection of the laws. Mr.Marshall continues on to point out that "the Negro children have road blocks put up intheir minds as a result of this segregation, so that the amount of education that the...
