One of the major reasons why the usa-ussr alliance had broken down by 1947 was because the US and USSR had very different political and economical ideologies, and the only thing keeping them tied together had been World War II, which had ended in 1945. <span><span> </span></span>
It was Earl Warren who wrote the famous decision of the Brown v. Board of Education case, which ruled that separate was in fact not equal when it came to separate facilities for African Americans.