The chief council for the plaintiffs was Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first Black Justice appointed to the Supreme Court. The case was then heard by the Supreme Court in 1954, along with other similar cases from around the country, and it became known as Brown v. The original case was tried in a district court and was defeated on the grounds that the Black schools and white schools were sufficiently equal and therefore segregated schooling in the district was protected under the Plessy decision. Board of Education decision is as critical today as it was 66 years ago when the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional, said Christine Bischoff, senior staff attorney for the SPLC’s Children’s Rights Practice Group. Legal scholars have focused their attention on Browns impact on the desegregation of public K-12 schools.2 Their emphasis is understandable. ![]() Housing and school policies are inextricably linked and deeply. Today, as one sign of progress, housing officials collaborate with educators to integrate neighborhoods as a means to achieving school integration. One of these suits was filed against the board of education in Topeka, Kansas, on behalf of Oliver Brown, a parent of a child who was denied access to white schools in the Topeka school district. Board of Education ruling promised integrated and equitable schools. ![]() In the early 1950s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) brought class action lawsuits against school districts in several states, seeking court orders that would require the districts to allow Black children to attend white schools.
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