Segregated building, Penncapital Capital Star, 2019 

                           Linda Brown, Hello Giggles, 2018

“I was a very young child when I started walking to school. I remember the walk as being very long at that time. In fact, it was several blocks up through railroad yards, and crossing a busy avenue, and standing on the corner, and waiting for the school bus to carry me two miles across town to an all black school. Being a young child, when I first started the walk it was very frightening to me, and then when wintertime came, it was a very cold walk. I remember that. I remember walking, tears freezing up on my face, because I began to cry because it was so cold, and many times I had to turn around and run back home. I remember Monroe School, the all-black school that I attended, as being a very good school, as far as quality is concerned, the teachers were very good teachers, they set very good examples for their students, and they expected no less of the student. I remember, the facility being a very nice facility, being very well-kept. I remember the materials that we used being of good quality. As I said, this was not the issue at that time, quality education, but it was the distance that I had to go to acquire that education.” - Linda Brown 

Winning this court case was going to be difficult because the Topeka school board had already made accommodations to African American children to make their schools appear “equal”. They stuck on a bandaid for a while just to keep them quiet so they could hold off on integration. For example, when children complained about having to walk long distances to their school the school board provided a bus. What many did not know is that students had to wait outside for an hour after getting off the bus, so offering a bus was for the image of “equal” use only.