Linda Brown |
The 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown v Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that segregating schools was unconstitutional. This overturned their original ruling in 1896 in Plessy v Ferguson, which set the precedent for "separate but equal" in segregating public places. Oliver Brown filed a class-action suit against the Board of Education of Topeka after his daughter, Linda Brown, was denied entry into an all-white elementary school. The case went before the U.S. District Court in Kansas that agreed the segregation violated the Fourteenth Amendment, but still upheld the "separate but equal" ruling.
The Little Rock Nine were another group of
African Americans that were integrated into a white
school and had the National Guard as protection.
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