Sixty years before Brown vs. Board of Education, racial segregation in the United States was rampant, backed by the Supreme Court decision Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896). Racial segregation manifested itself in many different areas; ... ), filed a class action lawsuit against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The NAACP had assigned the parents as the plaintiffs for this case, with Oliver L. Brown as the main parent that represented the case. Brown, alongside with the other parents, claimed that the concept of racial segregation in regard to educational facilities, should inherently be def...

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