The primary parties involved in the Brown v. Board of Education case were Oliver Brown, a parent of a third-grade daughter who was denied admission to an all-white school in Topeka, Kansas, and the Topeka Board of Education. The case was argued before the United States Supreme Court by Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court, representing the plaintiffs. The defendants were represented by John W. Davis, a prominent attorney and former presidential candidate. The decision in the case was handed down by Chief Justice Earl Warren and the other justices on the Supreme Court.
