Brown vs Board of education
Brown VS Board of Education was a supreme court case in Topeka, Kansas, 1954. This court case decided that laws that made different public schools for blacks and whites unconstitutional. In this case, father Oliver Brown is suing the Board of Education for not allowing his daughter, Linda Brown, to attend the white public school a few blocks away. So instead, she had to walk a mile through a railroad switch yard to the black public school. This court case overruled the Plessy V Ferguson, "separate but equal", decision. It did not abolish the "separate for equal" rule but it made segregation unconstitutional.