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| 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.
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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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