The Brown v. Board decision declared segregation in schools unconstitutional, thereby promoting integration. Many see it as a turning point, the beginning of a social revolution. However, some believe that, although positive, this decision was not enough to impose real change. It is even possible to argue that it increased white opposition, actually hindering the cause of civil rights. Overall, however, the positives outweighed the negatives, with the psychological effect and legal support from the court being the most important. Brown's prominence immediately after the court's decision was called a "Supreme Court bombshell"1, as shown in one image. published five days later in a Richmond newspaper. The San Francisco Chronicle believed that Brown would have an immediate and significant “anti-segregation impact,” calling it a “social revolution.”2 Judge Constance Motley called it “the catalyst for all the protests”3 that followed. The last of these sources came from an NAACP lawyer, the other two from pro-civil rights publications. It is therefore not surprising that these people wanted to promote the success of the judgment, perhaps leading them to exaggerate its importance. By exaggerating how much they thought the court's decision would change, they could have promoted their own hopes. The fact remains that this decision overturned the precedent established by Plessy v. Ferguson sixty years earlier. The Supreme Court opposed the ruling's central idea of ​​"separate but equal," saying it had "no place" in the U.S. Constitution and that "separate educational institutions are inherently unequal." »4. Willoughby and Paterson assert that Brown succeeded in "ending the hold of the Plessy precedent." ...... middle of paper ......s, New York, May 22, 1954. 9 Denver Post, Colorado, May 18, 1954. 10 Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky, May 18, 1954. 11 Paterson and Willoughby , Civil Rights in the United States, p. 119. 12 Mark Rathbone, The United States Supreme Court and Civil Rights, History Today. 13 From President Eisenhower's letter to a personal friend, 1957. 14 James T. Patterson, The Troubled Legacy of Brown v. Board, p. 7. 15 Statement of the Conference of Negro Educational Leaders, October 1954. 16 Daily News, Starkville, Mississippi, May 18, 1954. 17 Cavalier Daily, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 18, 1954. 18 Excerpt from President Eisenhower's letter to a friend personal, 1957. 19 Tom P. Brady, Black Monday, p.7. 20 James T. Patterson, The Troubled Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, 2004, p. 7. 21 James T. Patterson, The Troubled Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, 2004, p... 8.