LAD #37: Brown v. Board of Education

Separate but equal was considered constitutional with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, although this was brought to question with the Brown v. Board of Education. Linda Brown, a black school girl, was forced to walk three miles to get to her designed school in Kansas; however there was a white school located 7 miles from her house. Linda was not able to attend the closer to school due to her race. Linda Brown's parents proposed that it was wrong for their child to be segregated in this manner. The school board said that they were being realistic and told her parents that Linda should get used to segregation as she gets older. The case made its way to the supreme court where it was decided that it was unconstitutional with the fourteen amendment of equal rights in mind. However, this was only the beginning of a battle for equal treatment that African Americans faced.