10 Jan 1954 Jahr - 1954; Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (In this landmark Supreme Court case the justices unanimously ruled that a black girl, Linda Brown, should be allowed to attend her nearest school (an all-white one) and that to bar her from it was unconstitutional. The decision created an important legal precedent, overturning the one set by Plessy v. Ferguson, that at the time was expected to produce major change. The case served as a vindication of the NAACP's legal strategy and created some belief amon (Band der Zeit)