LAD #37

Brown v. The Board of Education was a monumental court case in which the long-standing "separate but equal" clause was challenged. Linda Brown, an African American 3rd grader, was forced to walk for a mile through a dangerous area in order to get to her segregated African American school, while the nearest white school was only a few blocks away. Brown went to the NAACP for help, and they argued that the segregation sent the message to black children that they are inferior to whites, therefore rendering the segregated schools unequal. The Board made the case that the segregation was an effort to protect black children in that it prepared for them for future segregation. In the end, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown, putting an end to the "separate but equal clause".