<span>Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka </span><span>is widely known as the Supreme Court decision that declared segregated schools to be "inherently unequal." The story behind the case, including that of the 1951 trial in a Kansas courtroom, is much less known. It begins sixty miles to the east of Topeka in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam, Kansas, where </span>Esther Brown<span>, a thirty-year-old white Jewish woman, became incensed at the local school board's reluctance to make modest repairs in a dilapidated school for area black students, even while it passed a bond issue to construct a spanking new school for whites. Eventually, Esther's empathy would cause her to push the state's NAACP chapter to launch a campaign to end segregation in Kansas schools--a campaign that would lead to victory on May 17, 1954 when a unanimous Supreme Court declared that the Topeka Board of Education's policy of segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.</span>
The answer is <span>He brought nobles under his control. The nobility was known to have their own military, but he strategically made a plan to pacify them. He made the nobles have the opportunity to live in his father's luxurious palace at Versailles. He also gave other functions to the nobility to the royal court. This made him reduce their political powers. Louis XIV was said to be have shown absolute monarchy during his term.</span>
