Figure 1 – The Warren Court (SCOUS) in 1953. Photograph by Palumbo for the World Telegram. From the Wikimedia Commons and the US Library of Congress, in the public domain.

Today, May 17, 2014, marks the 60th anniversary of the unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court banning segregated schools in the United States.  I thought that I would commemorate this occasion with a historic photograph by Ed Palumbo of the Warren Court.  This particular photograph, as described in the header of the image, was used to accompany the UPI story by Louis Cassels in the New York World Telegram & Sun about the decision. The members of the Warren Court, taken in 1953. Back row (left to right): Tom Clark, Robert H. Jackson, Harold Burton, and Sherman Minton. Front row (left to right): Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Stanley Reed, and William O. Douglas.