| | Linda Brown's enrollment at the all-white Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, was blocked in 1951, causing her family to challenge school segregation laws. In the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case, the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down state laws that allowed âseparate but equalâ public schools, ending legal segregation across the U.S.
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