The Plaintiffs
*Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County was decided on this date in 1956. Although filed in May 1951, it was one of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court 1954, officially overturned racial segregation in U.S. public schools.
In 1951, Spottswood Robinson and Oliver Hill from the local NAACP filed suit on behalf of 117 students. The Davis case was the only such case initiated by Barbara Rose Johns, leader of a student protest leader. It challenged segregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
