Brown v. Board of Education, (1954) was a unanimous decision of the US Supreme Court.
Chief Justice
Earl Warren
Associate Justices
Hugo Black
Stanley F. Reed
Felix Frankfurter
William O. Douglas
Robert H. Jackson
Harold H. Burton
Tom C. Clark
Sherman Minton
A lot of people. There were thirteen named plaintiffs with twenty-one children in Brown v. Board of Education when it was filed in US District Court for the District of Kansas in 1951. The case was organized by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, then consolidated (grouped with) other, similar cases before it went to the Supreme Court.
The following people are known to have participated in the case, but the list is by no means comprehensive:
The plaintiffs, listed alphabetically:
NAACP Legal Counsel for Brown v. Board of Education:
Charles I. Black, Jr.
Harold Boulware
Robert L. Carter
Elwood H. Chisholm
William T. Coleman, Jr.
Charles T. Duncan
Jack Greenberg
George E. C. Hayes
Oliver W. Hill
Thurgood Marshall (lead counsel)
Loreen Miller
William R. Ming, Jr.
Constance Baker Motley
James M. Nabrit, Jr.
David E. Pinsky
Louis L. Redding
Frank D. Reeves
Spottswood W. Robinson III
Charles S. Scott
John Scott
Jack B. Weinstein
The Topeka NAACP argued the Brown case. John Scott, Charles Scott, and Charles Bledsoe were the three attorneys, while McKinley Burnett (then President of Topeka NAACP) and Lucinda Todd (NAACP secretary and one of the plaintiffs) helped organize the case.
States' Legal Counsel for Brown v. Board of Education
John W. Davis (lead counsel) (South Carolina)
James Lindsey Almond, Jr. (Virginia)
Paul E. Wilson (Kansas)
H. Albert Young (Delaware)
Supreme Court Justices
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Justice Hugo Black
Justice Stanley F. Reed
Justice Felix Frankfurter
Justice William O. Douglas
Justice Robert H. Jackson
Justice Harold H. Burton
Justice Tom C. Clark
Justice Sherman Minton
Case Citation:
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954)
Brown is Oliver Brown, the nominal plaintiff in the original class action suit against the Topeka, Kansas, Board of Education. His daughter, Linda, was a student in a segregated elementary school in Topeka and had been denied enrollment in her neighborhood school due to her race. The NAACP recruited Brown and twelve other parents to challenge the school district's discriminatory policies. Oliver Brown's name was used because the legal team thought having a man's name at the head of the list would give them a strategic advantage.
By the time Brown v. Board of Education reached the US Supreme Court, it had been consolidated with three other school segregation cases from around the country, and paired with a companion case from the District of Columbia.
Case citation:
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954)
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