Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court Case in which it was ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court has nine justices. This vote was unanimous, meaning that all justices voted the same way.
The plaintiff, Oliver Brown, filed a lawsuit against the Board of education of Topeka, Kansas. His daughter, Linda Brown, was denied access to Topeka's white school which was located close to her home. Instead, she had to walk six blocks to catch her school bus to ride 1 mile to her segregated black school.
In his lawsuit, Brown claimed that this segregation violated the so called 'equal protection clause' of the 14th Amendment that guarantees equal protection of the laws to every person.
