Much of the public greeted the decision with elation and joy, nowhere better captured than in a photograph of a young mother sitting on the steps of the Supreme Court, cradling her young daughter in the crook of her arm, holding in her lap the next day’s newspaper, with its outsized front-page headline HIGH COURT BANS SEGREGATION IN NATION’S SCHOOLS. Warren’s opinion was greeted with near equal pleasure by Cold Warriors, who called it a “blow to communism.”
