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took her through a railroad switchyard in order to get to her black elementary school, even though a white school was nearby ("Brown," 2002). She lived in a "racially mixed
neighborhood" (Wilson, 1995, p. 8). At the time, however, schools were either black or white and there were no mixed institutions. The girls father, Oliver Brown, attempted to enroll her
in a white elementary school, but the principal refused to allow her to switch schools so they went to the NAACP for help (2002). The organization was happy to help
the Browns and with Browns complaint, and the voices of other black parents, in 1951, the NAACP requested an injunction to forbid the segregation of Topekas public schools (2002). The
U.S. District Court first heard Browns case on June 25, 1951 (2002). While it would take years for the final decision to be rendered, the case went all the way
to the Supreme Court, and it was a landmark decision. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in the Browns favor in the case of Brown vs. the Board
of Education of Topeka, Kansas ("Immigration," 1990). The ruling stated that separate educational facilities are unequal and thus, segregated public schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling
was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of the public schools (1990). Many Americans in both the North and South supported the decision. Of
course, there were some who opposed it. The opposition was largely composed of white supremacists. However, some opposed the decision purportedly because they did not like the government "in their
business" ("Immigration," 1990, p.PG). Thus, they did not necessarily want segregated schools, but did not like the federal government to supersede a system they feel had worked up until Brown.
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