-
Brown v. Board of Education
People involved in this case were Oliver Brown who was the lead plaintiff and NAACP lawyers such as Thurgood Marshall who was the lead attorney. This case took place in Topeka Kansas. Other states involved were South Carolina, Virginia and Delaware. In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation overruling the “separate but equal” principle set in 1896.