Nathan Newman turns conventional opinion on Brown v. Board of Education on its head:
On the 50th anniversary, the conventional wisdom is that Brown v. Board of Education represented the moment when our nation realized that the majority could not be trusted with individual rights, that democracy had failed for the black minority and we needed unelected judges to save us.
Which is just bad history.
What the Supreme Court did was save us from unelected Senators, who had been put there by unelected judges on the Supreme Court back in the 1870s– when those judged killed the Reconstruction laws that protected minority rights in the South.