 At the culmination of a legal strategy pursued by African Americans, the U.S. Supreme Court began, in 1954 under the leadership of Earl Warren, to find unconstitutional many of the laws that had allowed racial segregation and discrimination to be legal in the United States.The Warren Court made a series of landmark rulings such as "Brown v. Board of Education (1954)", "Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964)," and "Loving v. Virginia (1967)" which banned segregation in public schools and public accommodations, and struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage.The rulings also helped bring an end to the segregationist Jim Crow laws prevalent in the Southern states.