In the spring of 1954, the Supreme Court decided the case of Brown v.
             Board of Education in favor of the plaintiff, a little girl named Linda
             Brown. Linda Brown was an African-American child who had to walk through a
             dangerous railroad switchyard to get to her all-black elementary school.
             Her father, Oliver Brown, knew there was a white elementary school nearby
             that Linda could reach without talking through the switchyard. When Mr.
             Brown tried to enroll his daughter, in 1951, the school's principal
             The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
             (NAACP) agreed to help the Browns bring a lawsuit to force the white school
             to admit Linda, although the request was actually for an injunction against
             the Board of Education to prevent them from running a segregated school
             system. The attorneys for the plaintiff, Brown, presented expert testimony
             that pointed out that separation had the effect of making the black
             children feel inferior and that in fact, the schools were not separate but
             equal as the school board claimed. The Board of Education claimed that
             they were, and further, that the schools were simply preparing children for
             the adult society they would find themselves in; in that, everything from
             buses to lunch counters was still segregated. The District Court for the
             District of Kansas found in favor of the defendants, so the Browns, with
             the help of the NAACP, decided to seek to have the ruling overturned by the
             U.S. Supreme Court. The court agreed to hear it in 1951, but it was not
             heard until 1954. The result, however, was that the District Court's
             decision was overturned. While most people think that the Supreme Court
             decision in Brown v. Board of Education desegregated U.S. society
             generally, it did not. It applied only to the operation of public schools,
             the issue that was heard by the Court. Of course, it did open a legal path
             for other suits...