Linda Brown had to walk a mile every day to get to her non-white school, even though she lived a lot near to a white school, when the Browns tried to enroll her child to the white school they were turned away because of her color and the Browns weren’t the first family to be turned away. A group of 13 parents including Linda’s dad, Oliver Brown, sued the Topeka School Board on the grounds that segregation deprived them of their right