LAD #37

Linda Brown, a third grade African American girl, was the turning point in the fight against segregation in schools. Brown was forced to walk a mile to get to her elementary school despite the fact another school stood a matter of blocks from her house. Except the school was whites only, and Linda Brown and other colored children couldn't attend due to "separate but equal." Her parents took the issue to the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and they were glad the problem had finally come to light. For some time they had wanted to expression their views on the separation of black and white schools. Linda Brown was to act as the spark to help ignite the fight against segregated schools just as Rosa Parks was used in the bus boycotts. The NAACP brought the case to court in Brown vs. The Board of Education where they explained how the white school gives colored children the impression that they are inferior to them and therefore does not live up to the statement of "separate but equal." Judge Warren ruled in favor off the NAACP and declared the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson unconstitutional and for all schools across America to be desegregated, although the case did not end segregation as a whole.