1. Why do you think the Court recognized the huge psychological impact that segregated schools had on children who attended them?

2. A constitutional scholar has called the Court's ruling in the Brown case "the Supreme Court's most important decision of the twentieth century." Why do you think he would make this claim?

3. Do you agree or disagree with the Court's ruling in the Brown case? Give reasons for your answer.

4. How do you think the Court's Brown ruling was received in the South?

5. Initially all the justices may not have agreed that separate but equal schools were unconstitutional. Why then do you think they ultimately agreed with the Chief Justice?