Brown


 * Name:** Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Decided on May 17th, 1954
 * Year of Case:** Argued December 9th, 1952

====**Background:** Oliver Brown other parents had tried to enroll their children local "white schools" in the summer of 1950, but their children were rejected because they were African Americans. They were told they must attend one of the schools in the city for only African American children. Oliver then went to the NAACP, who took the case to the state courts, but lost. Once appealed and at the Supreme Court, it took a few years before they sided with Brown.====


 * Rationale:** The segregation had violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.