A black third grade girl had to walk 1 mile through a railroad yard to get to her segregated school, even though there was a white school only 7 blocks from her home. When her parents tried to enroll her in the closer, white school, the principal refused because of her race. Her parents took their case to the NAACP and requested an end to school segregation, indirectly relating to the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.