Brown v. Board of Education
- Topeka, Kansas
- Linda Brown
- African-American
- third grader
- wanted to attend the white school instead of walk a much longer distance to the black school
- NAACP and the Browns lost locally, but they appealed the decision all the way to the Supreme Court
- stated that the African-American children had developed an inferiority complex
- segregation that made them see themselves as inferior
- supreme court
- "separate but equal" between races isn't actually equal at all
- all public schools had to be racially integrated
- didn't actually happen for many years
- beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
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