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In the Midwest town of Topeka, Kansas, a little girl named Linda Brown had to ride the bus five miles to school each day although a public school was located only four blocks from her house. The school wasn't full and the little girl met all of the requirements to attend all but one that is. Linda Brown was black. And blacks weren't allowed to go to white children's schools. "Jim Crow" school in the South. The supreme court case Plessy v. Ferguson is one of the somberest chapter in the pages of American history. In this landmark decision of 1896, the court found that the doctrine of "separate but equal" concerning segregation of public facilities did not violate the constitution. Seperate schools for whites and black became a basic rule in southern society, legitimated in this doctrine that legalized segregation.September 8, 1954. The above picture was taken at a school in Fort Myer, Va., shortly after the school was desegregated under