Brown v. Board of Education started in 1951. Oliver Brown and 13 other parents tried to enroll their children into an all white school. Oliver Brown was the first parent name on the lawsuit filed against the Topeka Board of Education so it was named after him. He later turned to the NAACP to fight Linda Brown case. They hired lawyers that fought for all of the African American children around the world that should be able to attend the same schools as white children. For every 150.00 dollars spent on white children only 50.00 dollars were spent on the African American children.
The case was dismissed at state level so they took it to the United States supreme court. It was appealed on October 1, 1951. Since there were many cases on the same issues the court treated them as one and met with the lawyers on December 9, 1952. The Board of Education lawyers argued that the black scholars had no problem with black students attending black schools. The lawyers for the brown argued that the only reason there was sperate education for blacks and whites was because this would be proof that blacks were different from everyone else.