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LAD #39: Brown V. Board of Education

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Linda Brown was denied entry into all-white elementary schools in Topeka. Her father took action and filed a case against Topeka's Board of Education. This supreme court case became known as Brown V. Board of Education. He argued that Linda should have not to attend a black only school because the segregation that existed violated the 14th amendment. Earl Warren served as the judge for this case and ruled that   “in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place,” as segregated schools are “inherently unequal.”  On the other hand,  Plessy V. Ferguson had the opposite response as it further enforced segregation, with the logic "separate but equal"