LAD #30-Brown vs. Board of Education
This case involved a conflict between young Linda Brown and the Topeka, Kansas Board of Education. She argued that she lived so close to a white school but was forced to walk miles to receive an education at the black school. In the previous case involving segregation, known as Plessy vs. Ferguson, the court ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was "separate but equal." After serious investigation, it was discovered that the black schools were for the majority, highly inferior to the white schools. This caused the decision on May 17, 1954 that segregation in schools would now become illegal, essentially overruling and changing the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict. The case became an inspiration and starting ground for the Civil Rights Movement to begin and gain momentum, a movement that would be long and difficult with effects that are still felt in today's society.
