Following the "separate but equal" decision of Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896, many Americans decided to push for equality. In 1952 the Supreme Court was approached by four states, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, challenging the segregation in public schools. They wanted desegregation because they felt that the current segregation was unequal and that their freedoms were being violated.

Black fifth grader Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas was not allowed to attend a white elementary school. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) took up the case along with similar cases in the four other states. Brown V. Board of Education was argued in December of 1952 by black lawyer

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