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Board of Education made headlines, not only in American newspapers, but also around the world. “At Last! Whites and Black in the United States on the same school benches,” was the headline in Afrique Nouvelle, a newspaper in French West Africa (now Senegal). In India, the Hindustan Times noted that “American democracy stands to gain in strength and prestige from the unanimous ruling” since school segregation “has been a long-standing blot on American life and civilization.” For the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia, Brown would “go a long way toward dissipating the validity of the Communist contention that Western concepts of democracy are hypocritical.” Dudziak, professor of law and legal history at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and founder of the Legal History Blog. Professor Dudziak has published a book on Thurgood Marshall, a book on civil rights during the Cold War, and multiple articles on desegregation and the Court. The following is an essay for our Race and the Supreme Court program by Mary L.