Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Although the case originated in Topeka, Kansas, it had ripple effects across the entire United States, including Georgia. In Georgia, several civil rights organizations worked to end segregation and support the plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education. These included the NAACP, the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Two of the lead attorneys for the plaintiffs in Georgia were Donald Hollowell and Constance Baker Motley, both of whom were later appointed as federal judges.
