Board of Education on the same positions, but failed to have one as well received until this court case. (Civil Rights Foundation, 2015.) The Browns were a family with two daughters who had to travel a ridiculous distance just to get an education when they could easily walk a few blocks to an all-white school. Burnett saw the flaws in the system and the strain it was placing on African Americans who deserved education just as much as children who came from white families. (Civil Rights Foundation, 2015.) This was a problem that many African American families had to endure in the United States under the “separate but equal” law that stipulated that both families had the opportunity to attend school. What made this a problem, though, was that Topeka had 18 neighborhood schools for white children, yet there were fewer than five for children of different races. (Civil Rights Foundation, 2015.) The Browns were the federal defendants; because they were trying to change the way the laws were and create an opportunity that provided everyone with equal education. The federal court ruled it constitutional because there was a school in the town that the children could attend that was equal in teachers and curriculum, but the family still felt it wasn't fair, because the opportunities weren't really there. the same. The distance created the fact that they had to do it