WARREN, EARL. Typed Supreme Court opinion signed for the Brown v. Board of Education First Case. [No place likely Washington: circa 17 May 1954]. The full typed opinion headed "Brown v. Board of Education (First Case)", 11 typed pages on onion skin paper, signed at end in ink by Earl Warren, the sheets 11 x 8 1/2 inches (28 x 21.5 cm), housed in a fine morocco backed clamshell case. Folds, else fine, acquired from Bauman Rare Books.

"We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." This is a rare signed copy of the full 11-page Supreme Court opinion of the first Brown v. Board of Education case, a landmark of American jurisprudence and a watershed moment of the Civil Rights Movement. The opinion, which established that racial segregation in public schools in unconstitutional, is signed by Chief Justice Earl Warren and is a rare example thus. A second case, known as Brown II, related to the difficult task of carrying out desegregation. We trace few artifacts of this importance relating to this landmark case in the auction record.