They also prepared evidence that segregated schools were understaffed and underfunded. In all cases except for Brown, NAACP Legal Defence Fund lawyers presented evidence that segregated schools and their condition fostered feelings of inferiority and irreparable psychological damage among students. In all other cases Federal Courts found school segregation constitutional before appealing to the Supreme Court. Belton was the only case that the Federal Court ordered African American children to be admitted to “whites only schools”. County School Board of Prince Edward County was initiated by Robert Moton High School students who led a strike against the school and demanded equal facilities as those provided to white high school students. Clarendon sued over underfunding of segregated schools in South Carolina. Sharpe protested over crowded conditions in Washington D.C. The Plaintiff was Oliver Brown father of Linda Brown, an elementary school student, who had been forced to travel to a far away school when an “all white” school was closer. Thurgood Marshall, who became the first African American Supreme Court justice in 1967, was the lead counsel for the Brown case.

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