Brown v. Board of Education The case of Brown v. Board of Education was one of the biggest turning points for African Americans being accepted into white society at the time. Brown vs. Board of Education remains to this day one of, if not the most important case that African Americans have brought to the surface for the better of the United States. Brown v. Board of Education was not simply about children and education (Silent Covenants pg 11); it was about being equal in a society that claims African Americans were treated equal, when in reality they absolutely were not. This case was the starting point for many Americans to realize that separating but being equal wasn't working. The label separate but equal also made no sense, the circumstances were clearly not separate but equal. Brown v. Board of Education brought this fact to light, this case was the reason why blacks and whites no longer have separate bathrooms and fountains, this was the case that truly destroyed the separate but equal saying, Brown vs. Board of education really made everyone equal. The case began in Topeka, Kansas, a black third-grader named Linda Brown had to walk a mile through a rail yard to get to her black elementary school, even though a white elementary school was just seven blocks away . Linda's father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the 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 chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and asked for help (All Deliberate Speed ​​pg 23). The NAACP was eager to help the Browns, as they had long wanted to challenge segregation in public schools. The NAACP was looking for a case like this because they thought that if they could simply expose what was really happening in the "separate but equal society" that the circumstances were actually not separate but equal, but really much more disadvantaged for people of color, that everything would change. The NAACP hoped that if they could just prove this to society, the case would improve most separate but equal structures. The hopes of this case were much more than just the school system, people of color wanted to take this case to the top to abolish separation but equality.