ence in school of assocciating with white children , who represented ninty percent of our national society in which these colored children must live, then the colored child's cuuiculum is being greatly curtailed. The Topeka curriculum or any school curruculum cannot be equal under segregation." (Knappman 467)Meanwhile, students in black schools were offered very little subjects and few to none extracurricular activities. At the same time, black schools often located in distant areas without any means of transportation to and from the school. As a result to these horrid conditions, drop outs amoung Afrcan American students was incredibly high. Moreover, literacy rate amoung the African American population reamained incredibly low; despite the abolishment of slavery. (Tackach 27+)Finally, one man chose to stand up for what he believed in, and attempted to question the law. Despite the attempts of men such as William Reynolds, who tried to enroll his son in a school set aside for whites in Topeka, Oliver Brown's desire that his childrean be able to attend the closest public school resulted in a transformation of race relations in the United States. However, in the case of William Reynolds, the state Supreme Court refered to the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. (Haskins 105) Oliver Brown lived with his family on First Street near the Topeka Avenue viaduct. There, trains rumbled throughout all times of the day. Brown was hardworking welder in a railroad shop and worked as a part-time minister. Nothing, however, would prepare him in presenting his case before the three solemn judges sitting before him in teh formal marble courtroom. (Kraft 111)Brown's family lived "on the wrong side of town" (Knappman 466). Thier home was close to the railroad shop where he worked, and bordered a major swetchyard. Not only was it difficult to live in such noisy conditions, but the Brown children had to walk through the sweichyard to get to the black...
