jan 1, 1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education Case

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- Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education of Topeka when his daughter, Linda Brown, was refused admittance to the public school closest to their home and required to attend an all-black school further from their home
- Brown claimed segregation in schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment's “equal protection clause”, testing the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.
- US Supreme court decided that "separate but equal" rule was unconstitutional for US schools.
- The case set a precedent to end racial segregation in public facilities and strengthened civil rights organisations.
- Many schools however, stayed segregated.

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