Brown vs. Board
...ruling in this case, racial segregation was acceptable as long as equal facilities were provided for both races. Even though the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson involved passenger accommodations on a train, the principle of “separate but equal” was applied thereafter to all aspects of public life in states with large black populations. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, one of the most important cases in the history of the United States Supreme Court, overturned the ruling in the case of Plessy, vs. Ferguson. Set against the backdrop of the early 1950s, just as the civil rights movement was beginning to heat up, Brown vs. Board of Education changed the face of American schools in a significant way and set the stage for additional sweeping modifications in other areas, such as worker discrimination and fair labor laws. Linda Brown, a third grade African American girl from Topeka, Kans...