Greatest Impact on Desegregation

I think it's fair to say that the Court's ruling in Brown v. Board actually worsened race relations before it made them better due to the huge uproar it created among white Americans. A good example of this is the extreme rioting and vandalism of public school buses in the city of Boston. The lack of enforcement of this ruling was also a problem. I do not think that the pursuit of ferderal legislation, however,  would have  been a better option because it would have been extremely difficult to pass laws to enforce the ruling of Brown better. The Court is important because it acts as a referee and can make decisions opposite of the tyranny of the majority. Although the Civil Rights Act was vital to facilitation the civil rights movement, it is the Court that has had the biggest impact on desegregation. Without the Court, the laws passed on civil rights would be nothing but words because there would be no real enforcement of them. An example of the Supreme Court enacting penalties for those who do not follow laws on civil rights is the Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools. In this decision, the Supreme Court a violation of Title IX of the 1972 Education Act, which forbade gender discrimination in education, could result in monetary damages.