In the landmark court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Linda Brown was represented by a team of lawyers from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The lead attorney for Linda Brown's case was Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice. Marshall argued the case before the Supreme Court, along with a team of lawyers including Robert L. Carter, Jack Greenberg, and Constance Baker Motley. They argued that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Marshall and his team were successful in their arguments, and the Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.
