The case Brown versus Board of Education was significant because it stuck down the "separate but equal" doctrine of the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. The Brown vs. Board of Education court case was over a young black girl named Linda Brown who was forced to walked a mile to a black school everyday rather than seven blocks to a white school. The NAACP got involved in the case and said that segregation was harmful to the education of black children because it made them feel inferior to whites and therefore were unable to learn. The Board of Education defended segregated schools and said that the segregation of schools prepared children for the reality of life because everything in society is segregated between whites and blacks at the time. In addition the precedent of the Plessy vs Ferguson case was set and therefore the Supreme Court was leaning more towards the Board of Education but after further review Chief Justice Earl Warren announced the unaminous decision to rule in favor of the plaintiff. The Supreme Court stated that they believed although tangible factors may be equal between the two that separate education facilities are unequal. This decision did not abolish segregation in other public places however it did declare the permissive or mandatory segregation in schools unconstitutional.