One day Reverend Oliver Brown took his eight-year-old daughter, Linda Carol, for a walk to the Sumner Elementary School located just seven blocks from her house in Topeka, Kansas. After a discussion Brown had with the principal over the enrollment of his daughter, he was informed that she would not be admitted to the school even though she qualified. The reason she was not admitted to the school was because of the color of her skin, Sumner Elementary only accepted Caucasian children. Reverend Brown was not a man who caused trouble, but he did not want

“Segregation of white and colored people in

actions have been brought are, by reason of the

inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the

his daughter to have to walk six blocks along railroad tracks in order to catch the bus to a rundown black school (Dudley 8).

no place. Separate educational facilities are the

So both sides argued over why and why it was not a violation of the children’s Fourteenth Amendment rights, yet things were still not any clearer for those making the final judgment. The Court had to make a decision based not on whether or not the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment had desegregated schools in mind when they wrote the amendment in 1868, but based upon whether or not desegregated schools deprived black children of equal protection of the law (Brown).

“We come then to the question presented: Does

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