Educational segregation in Topeka, Kansas forced a black girl, Linda Brown, to walk an undeserved extra distance to school every day solely because of her race. She, alongside the NAACP, filed a suit against the state of Kansas on the grounds that the learning of black schoolchildren was inhibited by segregation and had to end. The court ruled against Linda Brown, but the NAACP wouldn't take such a verdict and appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court with the argument that there was no such thing as "separate but equal," and that segregation violated the rights of black people to due process and protection under the law. Under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court ruled in favor of Linda Brown, overturning the old precedent of "separate but equal" set forth by Plessy vs. Ferguson, and finally, in 1954, officially outlawed segregation of the school systems.
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