Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was a landmark case in which the final ruling changed the lives of every United States citizen from the ruling until now because it desegregated all the schools in the country. The case was about a little girl, Linda Carol Brown, who was told she could not go to school at the school that was close to her own neighborhood. The cases ruling overturned that of …showed first 75 words of 1314 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1314 total…the best decision possible for everybody involved and everyone that it affected (Goetz, "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" 562). As you can see this landmark case overturned the ruling of other segregation cases. It also paved the road for the colored race to extend their schooling and associate with the opposite race. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was a very important case and it destroyed the "Separate but Equal" doctrine of 1866.