school a mile away. Meanwhile, there was another school only seven blocks away, but it was segregated for white children only. (466)When his daughter Linda was to enter the third grade in September, Brown took her to the whites-only school and tried to enroll her. Without any history of racial activism, Brown headed down the corridor to the principal's office. He was told that such an enrollment was impossible due to the segregation laws of Topeka, Kansas. Thereafter, Brown sought help from the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (Kraft 110)The organization, under the direction of McKinley Burnett, had been waiting for an excellent chance to challenge the segregation issue. Finally, they had the perfect plaintiff to defend the case. Now that he had Brown and several other black parents in Topeka with children in blacks only schools, Burnett and the NAACP decided that it was time to take legal action. (Knappman 467)On March 22, 1951The NAACP lawyers filed a lawsuit in teh U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, requestion the abolition of segregation in the school system. Brown and the other black parents testified to the fact that their children were denied admiion to white schools. According to Knappman one parent testified:It wasn't to cast any insinuations that our teachers are not capable of teaching our children because that are supreme, extremely intelligent and are capable of teacing my kids or white kids or black kids. But my point was that not only I and my children are craving light: the entire colored race is craving light, and the only way to reach the light is to start our children together in their infancy and they come up together.(467) With the experience of dealing with many court battles over reacial discrimination, Marshall was know to be a vertan with segregation issues. As a matter of fact, according to U.S. Court Cases, he was anxiouse to demonstrate not only that seg...
