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Race Riot
Two black men were secretly transferred to another cities jail for allegedly committing crimes against white people. This caused a white mob to burn down about 40 homes in a black community. -
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NAACP
During the civil rights era in the 1950s and 1960s, the group won substantial legal victories. (The NAACP is still a working organization in America 2022) -
Segregation in schools
The NCAAP was trying to work on segregation in schools, the case got famous because Oliver Brown filed a class action suit against the Board of Education in Topeka. -
Combining the cases
In 1952, the Supreme Court consolidated Brown's case with four other cases related to school segregation into a single case under the name Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education ended racial segregation in public schools, combining five cases into one. However, many schools remained segregated.