<u>Brown vs.Board of Education was a landmark supreme court case in which the court ruled that the racial segregation of students in schools was unconstitutional</u>. It was an outcome of the civil rights movement. This ruling meant that separate but equal treatment in education was not equal. while in 1896 the supreme court had ruled segregation was legal as long as the facilities provided to both blacks and whites were equal. The Brown vs. Board of education was filed by Oliver Brown against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas after her daughter was not allowed to enter the all-white elementary school in <u><em>Topeka. The segregation in schools ended due to the hard work of the NAACP, who filed cases against the segregation laws in public schools.</em></u>
