The Board of Education of Topeka (KS) case before the federal district court in Topeka after persuading thirteen parents to volunteer as plaintiffs. But this was often not the case, especially in the education system where Black students, in particular, were provided with substandard education opportunities.Īs racial segregation against Blacks escalated across the United States, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) launched a systematic legal campaign to reverse the doctrine of “separate but equal.” In 1951, the NAACP presented the Brown et al. The decision reinforced the legality of segregation laws enacted by state and local governments throughout the country after the end of the Civil War.Īccording to the judgment, racially segregated public facilities were legal as long as the services provided to each race were equal in quality. The Court upheld a Louisiana law which required whites and Blacks to ride in separate railroad coaches. Supreme Court in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Board of Education case is rooted in the “ separate but equal” doctrine, a ruling by the U.S. Joined by twelve other Black parents with similar experiences, the Brown family sued the Topeka Board of Education in what would become known as Brown v. Linda, aged nine, was forced to walk across train tracks-sometimes in the cold winter-to attend an all-Black school two miles away from her home.
But she was denied enrollment because it was an exclusively white school. In the fall of 1950, Oliver Brown, a Black church minister, tried to enroll his daughter Linda at Sumner Elementary School, a few blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas.
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