. the lawyers who led the Brown v. Board of Education decision descend the court steps in Washington, D.C. moments after the Supreme Court ruled that segregation is unconstitutional.
"Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives.?"