Linda Carol Brown
The Brown family is often times given credit for bringing an end to segregation in schools in the 1950's. When Linda Brown was a third grader in Topeka, Kansas, she and twelve other families were asked by the NAACP to enroll in a local school for white children, expecting to be rejected. These families were against the earlier case of "Separate but Equal" which allowed segregation in the schools. This led to the NAACP filing a lawsuit against the Topeka Board of Education which sparked the court case Brown v. Board of Education.