Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a case decided in 1954 in which the Supreme Court of the United States declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. The full name of the case is Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. The court decided the case together with several others that dealt with the same issue. The court applied its decision to all of the cases at the same time. But the name of the Brown case is almost always used in referring to the decision.