Appendix 9
Judicial Policymaking: It Is All Persuasion and Accommodation
Oliver Brown, a black welder from Topeka, Kansas, USA was upset that his 8-year-old daughter Linda had to cross the railway tracks to catch a bus and travel several miles to a black school even though a white school was near his house. His attempts to admit her in the white school having failed, in 1951, he sued the school board of Topeka. It was a small step that resulted in a giant leap for the civil liberties of millions of black Americans. By 1952, the case reached the Supreme Court, and was considered along with four other appeals relating to segregation in schools. What was being challenged was not an isolated case of discrimination but a 56-year-old judgement of ...
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