By the time Brown v. Board of Education reached the US Supreme Court, it had been consolidated with three other school segregation cases from around the country, and paired with a companion case from the District of Columbia. Case citation: Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954) For more information, see Related Questions, below. read more
2. Brown v. Board of Education started off as five cases. In 1950 and 1951, lawsuits were filed in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia on behalf of black elementary school students who attended legally segregated schools. read more
In the case that would become most famous, a plaintiff named Oliver Brown filed a class-action suit against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in 1951, after his daughter, Linda Brown, was denied entrance to Topeka’s all-white elementary schools. read more