Board of Education on the same positions, but failed to obtain one as well received until this trial. (Civil Rights Foundation, 2015.) The Browns were a family with two daughters who had to travel a ridiculous distance just to receive an education when they could just as easily walk a few blocks to an all-white school. Burnett saw the flaws in the system and the pressure it placed on African Americans who deserved as much education as children from white families. (Civil Rights Foundation, 2015.) This was an issue that many African American families faced across the United States, based on the "separate but equal" law which stated that both families had the opportunity to go to school. The problem was that Topeka had 18 neighborhood schools for white children, but 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 laws and create an opportunity that provides equal education for everyone. The federal court ruled it constitutional because there was a school in town that the children could attend that was equal in terms of teachers and curriculum, but the family still thought it wasn't fair, because the odds really weren't equal. The distance created the fact that they had to