Board of Education of Topeka case, and worked on the briefs in Belton v. Jack Greenberg, who was born in 1924, argued on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Brown v. Fatzer served as Kansas Supreme Court Justice from February 1949 to March 1956. Clark, who provided evidence in the Briggs case on segregation's devastating effects on the psyches of Black children.Īs Attorney General of Kansas, Harold Fatzer argued the case for the appellees (Kansas) in Brown v. Carter secured the pivotal involvement of social scientists, particularly Kenneth B. Board of Education case because of his role in the Briggs case. Elliott, was of particular significance to the Brown v. Oliver Brown died in 1961.īorn in 1917, Robert Carter, who served as an attorney for the plaintiffs in Briggs v. The NAACP and Thurgood Marshall took up Brown’s case along with similar cases in South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware as Brown v. Brown’s 8-year-old daughter, Linda, was a Black girl attending fifth grade in the public schools in Topeka when she was denied admission into a white elementary school. Oliver Brown, a minister in his local Topeka, KS, community, challenged Kansas's school segregation laws in the Supreme Court. Board of Education. Linda Brown died in 2018. The NAACP and Thurgood Marshall took up their case, along with similar ones in South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, as Brown v. When Linda was denied admission into a white elementary school, Linda's father, Oliver Brown, challenged Kansas's school segregation laws in the Supreme Court. Linda Brown, who was born in 1943, became a part of civil rights history as a third grader in the public schools of Topeka, KS. Board of Education that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.īrown v. In 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Brown v. The plaintiffs claimed that the "separate but equal" ruling violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Ferguson ruling of the United States Supreme Court as precedent. In each case, the lower courts had ruled against the plaintiffs, noting the Plessy v. This grouping of cases from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Delaware was significant because it represented school segregation as a national issue, not just a southern one. Each case was brought on the behalf of elementary school children, involving all-Black schools that were inferior to white schools. In 1952, the Supreme Court agreed to hear five cases collectively from across the country, consolidated under the name Brown v.
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