In Topeka, Kansas, Oliver Brown (black) filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education with the assistance of the NAACP. It was about his daughter, Linda Brown, who had to walk several miles and cross a railroad track to get to school instead of going to a whites-only school near her house.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruled that school segregation was illegal and that schools had to integrate. Because the Supreme Court did not set a deadline for schools to integrate, many states chose not to desegregate their schools until the 1960s.
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