The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was a case based on the unequal segregation of the public schools within the white and black communities. During this time period, slavery has been abolished for roughly one hundred years; however, segregation is still a big thing around this time. Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, of people of different races in all manner of daily activities (Racial). In Topeka, Kansas, they were supposed to be following the principle of the “separate but equal” policy. The “separate but equal” policy was a policy under the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause that said black and white schools could be segregated, as long as both the white and black school where equal. When
