Brown v. Board of EducationThe case of Brown v. Board of Education was one of the biggest turning points for African Americans to be accepted into white society at the time. Brown v. Board of Education remains to this day one of, if not the most important case that African Americans brought to the surface for the betterment of the United States. Brown v. Board of Education was not just about children and education (Silent Covenants, page 11); it was about being equal in a society that pretended that African Americans were treated equally, when in reality they certainly were not. This case was the starting point for many Americans who realized that separation but equality does not work. The label “separate but equal” also made no sense, the circumstances were clearly not separate but equal. Brown v. Board of Education brought it out, this case was the reason why blacks and whites no longer have separate toilets and water fountains, this is the case that truly destroyed the saying separate but equal, Brown v. Board of Education really made everyone The case began in Topeka, Kansas, a black third grader named Linda Brown had to walk a mile through a railroad yard to get to her black elementary school, even though a white elementary school was only seven blocks away. Linda's father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in a white elementary school seven blocks from her home, but the school principal refused simply because the child was black. Brown went to McKinley Burnett, the head of the Topeka branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and asked for help (All Deliberate Speed, p. 23). The NAACP was eager to help the Browns, as it had long wanted to challenge segregation in public schools. The NAACP was looking for a case like this because they felt that if they could just expose what was really happening in a "separate but equal society", the circumstances were not actually separate but equal, but much more disadvantaged for people of color. that everything would be changed. The NAACP hoped that if they could just prove this to society, this case would improve most separate but equal establishments. The hopes of this affair went far beyond the simple school system, people of color wanted to take this affair to the top to abolish separation but equality..