Linda Brown was forced to walk to a black school very far away while a white school was much closer. They tied to attend the white school but, the school refused. Brown's parents claimed that it was wrong for their child to be segregated in such a manner. They brought this to court where the Court’s unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” This still didn't give them true equality though but lead a new pathway to it.
This case inspired a more profound civil rights movement in the late 1950s and 1960s
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