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In 1951 a class action suit was filed against the Board of Education of the city of Topeka, Kansas in the U.S District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs were thirteen Topeka parents on benefit of their 20 children. The suit called for the School District to reverse its policy of racial segregation. Several schools were ran under an 1897 Kansas law which permitted ( but did not require) districts to maintain separate school facilities for blacks and whites. One of these schools was Little Rock Central High School.