LAD 30: Brown vs. Board of Education

Schools were segregated by race. However, the schools of the blacks were not as great as the whites. Linda Brown, an elementary student had to walk a great distance to get two her black school when there was a perfectly good white school around the corner. When the principal of the white school refused to enroll Linda, Mr. Brown asked the NAACP for help. Eager to challenge segregation, the NAACP and the Brown's took the Board of Education to trial. They argued that the segregation of schools sent a mixed message of inferiority to whites to the black children. The schools argued that the segregation was preparing them for their adulthood filled with segregation. Brown and the NAACP appealed their case to the Supreme Court and the final ruling declared that the segregation of schools was unconsitutional. While several other institutions like resteraunts remained segregated.