Summary of Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas -
In 1951, Kansas' District Court held the case involving a young African American who wanted to attend a school for white children. This girl's father, Oliver Brown, requested the NAACP's help to forbid segregation in public schools. The Board of Education said that this segregation in schools was to prepare the children for future segregation as adults. The Board won, but then Brown appealed to the Supreme Court where they ruled in favor of Brown.