Brown VS Board Of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a group of five legal appeals that
challenged the "separate but equal" basis for racial segregation in public
schools in Kansas, Virginia
(Dorothy Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward), Delaware, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia. The appeals reached the Supreme Court about
the same time, and because they all dealt with the same issues, the Court heard
arguments on them together. Because the Kansas case arrived first, the combined
appeal was known as Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kansas, et al. In each case, the legal office of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) represented the
plaintiffs, and NAACP lawyers, such as Spottswood Robinson, Oliver Hill, and
Thurgood Marshall, argued that the black students' rights had been violated
under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In all five
cases, inequality in curriculum, school structures, and transportation were the
key issues