In the fall of 1950, she convinced the student council to ask the school board for better facilities for black students. Barbara Johns, a sixteen-year-old Moton junior, was a member of the school chorus, drama group, New Homemakers of America and student council. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, all-black Moton High School was severely underfunded and overcrowded. Elliot, chairman of the school district, in a case known as Briggs v. After the school board refused to provide a bus, parent Harry Briggs filed suit against Roderick W. Reverend Joseph Albert DeLaine began circulating a petition among the black community requesting the school board provide buses. The school board did not provide funds for supplies, building maintenance or buses to black schools. In Clarendon County, South Carolina, schools for black children were funded at only a quarter of the level of schools for white children. With the assistance of the NAACP, Reverend Brown filed suit against the Board of Education. The principal refused to enroll Linda, who attended all-black Monroe Elementary School, because Sumner Elementary was open only to white children. Sumner was the elementary school nearest their home in Topeka, Kansas. In the fall of 1950, Reverend Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his eight-year-old daughter, Linda, at Sumner Elementary School. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education led to the desegregation of graduate and professional schools in 1950, many black children continued to be denied admission to white elementary and high schools under state laws either permitting or requiring segregation. While the decisions of the Supreme Court in Sweatt v.
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