Read the paragraph below and answer the question that follows.
(1) In 1950, NAACP leaders encouraged seven-year-old Linda Brown and several other African-American students near Topeka, Kansas, to enroll in schools close to their homes. (2) The children were refused admission because of their race, so their parents sued the Topeka Board of Education. (3) The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and signaled a turning point in the fight for equality: the court finally declared segregation of public schools to be illegal. (4) Although the Court's decision was largely ignored in the Southern states, Brown v. Board of Education proved that battles for equality could be won. (5) The fight, however, was far from over.
