mner School. The Sumner School was just four blocks from where the Browns lived, but it was for white children only and they were African American. Linda was forced to go the Monroe School, which was a mile from her home. Brown sued the local school board because they refused to accept Linda at the Sumner School. The NAACP assisted Brown, and they found themselves in the Supreme Court. Browns lawyer was Thurgood Marshall, who would become the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court. Mr. Chief Justice Warren, on behalf of a unanimous Court, said, “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiff and others similarly situated…are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.”The courts ruling of this case was a very courageous thing. Many people wanted segregated school to be legal. President Dwight Eisenhower put pressure on Warren to keep make segregation constitutional. After the court ruled against segregation, they had to decide how to get rid of the nations segregated school systems. In Brown vs. Board of Education II, the court agreed that schools should desegregate with “all deliberate speed”Dynamics of Democracy Second Edition, Squire, Lindsay, Covington, and SmithCopyright 1997...
