Brown v. Board of Education was one to the most influential Supreme Court decisions of the 1900’s and changed the American school system forever. This case arose because of the large amount of segregated schools in America made possible because of the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. That case said that schools could be segregated as long as they were equal (McBride). This statement was used to the advantage of pro-segregation due to the fact that separate but equal is a concept that can be interpreted and twisted many ways in order for segregation in schools to continue. In the early 1950’s black parents started to combat the schools. In Topeka, Kansas Oliver Brown’s child was denied access to an all white school. Brown filed a suit against
