Case: Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Facts: Linda Carol Brown was an eight-year-old black girl, whose father, Oliver Brown, was an assistant pastor of a Topeka church. The browns lived in a predominantly white neighborhood on a short distance from an elementary school. Under stat law, cities with population over fifteen thousand were permitted to administer racially segregated schools, and the Topeka Board of Education required its elementary schools to be racially divided. The Browns did not want their daughter to be sent to the school reserved for black students. It was far from home, and they considered the trip dangerous. In addition, their neighborhood school was a good one, and the Browns wanted their daughter to receive an integrated education. They filed suit challenging the segregated school system as violating their daughter's rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Facts: Linda Carol Brown was an eight-year-old black girl, whose father, Oliver Brown, was an assistant pastor of a Topeka church. The browns lived in a predominantly white neighborhood on a short distance from an elementary school. Under stat law, cities with population over fifteen thousand were permitted to administer racially segregated schools, and the Topeka Board of Education required its elementary schools to be racially divided. The Browns did not want their daughter to be sent to the school reserved for black students. It was far from home, and they considered the trip dangerous. In addition, their neighborhood school was a good one, and the Browns wanted their daughter to receive an integrated education. They filed suit challenging the segregated school system as violating their daughter's rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
