Linda Brown was a black student in Topeka Kansas, who lived far away from her all black school, even though her schools were supposed to be separate but equal, the white school was much closer to where she lived. Mr. Brown appealed to District court, and the Naacp and tried to challenge the segregation laws from Plessy v Ferguson. In this court they ruled in favor of the schools, citing the previous case. The NAACP appealed this decision to the supreme court in 1951. in 1954 they decided, by Chief justice Warren, that minority groups must be provided with equal educational opporutnities. This reversed the separate but equal decisions made in the Plessy Vs Ferguson decision on the grounds that it violates the 14th amendment. after this schools were no longer divided by racial lines. this was a major turning point in the civil rights movement.
