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The US Supreme Court case on Brown v. the Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954), declares “separate but equal is not ok” in school education. The Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson was being used as a precedent to keep schools segregated. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, (NAACP), played a major role in helping with the cases of underprivileged schools. The Supreme Court Justices had a difficult decision to make, because they had to break precedent. Plessy v. Ferguson was the case that was being used as a precedent to keep schools segregated. The way America was at that time was separate but equal. Children in a “blacks only” school had to be the same for the “whites only” school. It was not only schools but in all public places that needed to be separate but equal. The only reason the Plessy v. Ferguson case w