For civil rights groups, Roe v Wade is reminder of supreme court's limits

"Overturning Roe v Wade opens the door for reconsidering precedents that have advanced civil rights over the past century, from school desegregation to voting rights to affirmative action, legal scholars and civil rights advocates say."

"And the court has also agreed to hear affirmative action cases against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina that could upend the use of race in college admissions."

"Then, the NAACP, under its first general counsel Charles Hamilton Houston, who worked with his protege Thurgood Marshall, pursued test cases to chip away at racial segregation, which eventually led to eliminating white primaries in Smith v Allwright in 1944 and racial desegregation in public schools in Brown v Board of Education in 1954."

"Julian Bond and John Lewis, then members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), were critical of the slow pace of litigation."

This is a negative sentiment.

"By 1973, after Richard Nixon appointed four justices to the supreme court, they decided in Milliken v Bradley to curtail federal authority to enforce desegregation, leaving it to cities and counties to ensure that schools were integrated."

This is a negative sentiment.

"Then, the NAACP, under its first general counsel Charles Hamilton Houston, who worked with his protege Thurgood Marshall, pursued test cases to chip away at racial segregation, which eventually led to eliminating white primaries in Smith v Allwright in 1944 and racial desegregation in public schools in Brown v Board of Education in 1954."

This is a positive sentiment.