 My name is Delani Davis, I'm a reference archivist and a subject matter expert for records relating to the African American experience here at the National Archives Records Administration. Today I'm standing here in the Botunda. This is where the National Archives rules the Nation's Founding Documents including the Preparation of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The National Archives has a rotating exhibition of featured documents. This month our featured documents include the opinion and the judgment from the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. In this landmark Supreme Court case, Chief Justice Warren decreed that all segregated public schools were inherently unequal and in violation of the 14th Amendment and that they should be desegregated with all deliberate speed. Although this ruling did not clearly mandate and immediate desegregation of public schools, the case still served as a major catalyst for the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s and it inspired them in their fight to desegregate all public institutions.