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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a United States Supreme Court case where the court declared state laws which established separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.

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The state laws they mentioned in this case were needed because an African American girl named Linda was a third grader and she would have to walk one mile to get to her elementary school.

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(there is an African mother with her daughter sitting down , looking quite upset)

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Linda's father Oliver Brown had tried to enroll her in a white elementary school ,but the principal of the elementary school refused.

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Brown went to McKinley Burnett , which is the head of Topeka's branch of the NAACP and asked for help. In 1951, NAACP requested an injunction that would forbid the segregation of Topeka's public schools.

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Brown v. Board of Education in PBS' The Supreme Court

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NAACP argued that the elementary schools sent the message to black children that they were inferior to whites.

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The supreme court's decision did indeed Mark a turning point in the history of race relations. May 17 of 1954 , the court removed constitutional sanctions for segregation by race.