This case actually consisted of five from Kansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, and Virginia under the name Oliver Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka. Oliver Brown's daughter, Linda, had to walk six blocks to a bus top in order to be driven a mile to Monroe Elementary, a segregated black school, instead of walking seven blocks to a white school named Sumner Elementary. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the thirteen plaintiffs, stating, “Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children...A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn.” This ended racial segregation in public schools, overturning the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling.