EARL WARREN ~ CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES 2184 Block of 4 x 29 US Postage Stamps

Block of 4 stamps ~ On March 9, 1992 in Washington, DC., the USPS honored Earl Warren, with a Great Americans stamp. Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, was viewed as a courageous leader who sought to adapt accepted legal principles to modern social conditions. In 1954, he spoke for a unanimous court in the Brown vs. Board of Education case, one of the most important cases in Supreme Court history. He stated, "In the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Warren was born on March 19 1891 and died on July 9 1974 at the age of 83.