LAD#37- Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education

Linda Brown, an African American elementary student, had to walk to school many miles away even though there was a school just several blocks from her house. When her father tried to enroll Linda in the local white elementary school, she wad not admitted. Mr. Brown then decided to talk to the local NAACP to try to see what they could do to challenge this rule. When the board of education of Topeka was challenged, they said that the segregated schools were helping prepare black children from their inferiority to whites once they reached adulthood. This case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. Here it was decided that the "separate but equal" clause that was decided in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, is not equal at all and has no place in schools. This case is known for overriding the decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson case and leading to the desegregation of schools.