The interesting thing here to me is the background, with which I wasn’t really familiar. The black people of Topeka had no (or very little) interest in integration - it was pushed on them by the NAACP.
The plaintiffs in the case that originated in SC and was merged with the Brown lawsuit were not interested in integration either. All they wanted was gas for their school buses (which the parents had purchased together) which was denied by the local school board.