Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
The Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas is one of 12 schools listed in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Sumner Elementary School was cited as the segregated white school at which Oliver Brown was denied the right to enroll his daughter Linda. Monroe Elementary School was the segregated black school to which his daughter was assigned. The Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case became one of the four school segregation cases consolidated in Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 that overturned the separate but equal doctrine in public education. Link to More Information: https://www.nps.gov/places/sumner-elementary-school.htm
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