The work of the Supreme Court

The work of the Supreme Court.

• With the help of the Supreme Court, the African Americans began to gain civil rights.

1. Following campaigns by the NAACP, the US Supreme Court - which interprets the constitution - ruled that racial segregation in state schools was unconstitutional in the case Brown v Board of Education of Topeka. 
2. And, since the Constitution is the highest law of the land, the federal government was obliged to intervene when it was contradicted by local state law.
3. In 1956, the Supreme Court finally ruled that Alabama's bus segregation laws were unconstitutional in response to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.