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Brown VS. The Board of Education
In 1951, there was a lawsuit filed against the Board of Educaton in Topeka Kansas by about twenty one parents who where begining to become angry with the segregation laws in the school system. The main plantiff was Oliver Brown, who was a parent of a student attending school, and a local welder. The case began after the twenty one parents in question attmepted to enroll their students in the nearest public schools, but they were denied and reffered to the segregated schools in the area. The case was named after Brown because the laywers thought that the case would do better if it was a man's name on the case, and because Brown was married and had an actual family instead of the usual single parent with children. After the case was closed, many people still didn't agree with the ruling, and there began to be protests and riots. One such movement was the massive resistance which was organized by Henry F. Byrd. The Massive Resistance was a move that began to close schools rather than desegregate them, this had a very negitive effect on the black population, because it began to limit the schools that they could choose from, there was no official apologie for this action until 2009 which is almost 50 years after the initial problem.