Segregation of white and colored children in public education has a detrimental effect upon the colored children... We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
― Warren's ruling in Brown v. Topeka.
Earl Warren (19 March 1891 - 9 July 1974) was an American politician and jurist who served as 30th governor of California from 1943 - 1953 and 14th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1953 - 1969.
Warren is mostly remembered for his ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, when he and the rest of the court unanimously ruled that segregation of schools was unconstitutional and violated the Fourteenth Amendment, overturning the court's previous "separate but equal" ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. He also struck down laws against interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia and established the legal requirement to provide those accused of a crime with a lawyer in Gideon v. Wainwright.