As the Civil War ended and Slavery did, too, the question of African American's freedom did not. African Americans had been given their freedom from slavery but not their freedom from segregation. In 1896 after the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case, the Supreme Court found that segregation, "separate but equal", in public facilities was not against the Constitution. "Separate schools for blacks and whites became a basic rule in southern society." All that was about to change.
In Topeka, Kansas there was a little girl by the name of Linda Brown. She had to be driven five and a half m
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