In the early 19 fifties, morburley had a school system employing around hundred teachers across eight schools. The year after the brown decision, mobily integrates by closing the one black school and bussing all the black students there to white schools. They decide to fire every one of the 11 black teachers who used to work at lincoln. So the black teachers sue, and they lose. They appeal, they lose again. In 19 59, they ask the supreme court to consider the case. And they're connected. Virtually every profession except teaching was closed to ed ted african americans in those years. If you were smart and liked learning in that era, you became