The Ordinance of Jim Crow since Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ) came under the litmus test in the 20th Century American Judiciary that revolutionized the social climate and political landscapes . Four brave women including the 15 years adolescent brought suit against the State of Alabama and City of Montgomery. All plaintiffs commonly shared their action : justifiable defiance of the Jim Crow segregation policy on intrastate and municipal buses beginning with Claudette Colvin, the 15 years old . Other plaintiffs encompassed Aurelius Browder as eponymously named after her , Susie McDonald , and Mary Louis . They all refused to relinquish their seat to the White patrons on ground of being wiery and tired of injustice and inequality. Fred Gray was their attorney who brought their case before the United States District Court of Middle County ( Alabama) , of course with peripheral help . Rosa Park stepped unto the stage long after these brave women's defiance of the unjust law . In December, Park had political connections with Eric Nixon of NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) and Montgomery Bus Boycotts , which mobilized this legal precedent, Browder v. Gayle , 142 F.Supp.707 ( 1956 ) . This case was published in the Federal Supplement , the unofficial reporter of West Publishing Co and is widely used for citation . The tribunal ruled on the unconstitutionality of the State Statute and City Ordinance on ground of its contravention of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment
"......Nor shall any State ...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the Equal protection of the Laws....."
( Provenance: U.S. Constitution) .
Every individual in similar situation is to be treated equally despite anthropological, racial , ethnic , and religious diversity. Both the State and Mayor Gayle appealed directly to the SCOTUS ( Supreme Court of the United States) since it dealt with the Federal question . In November, Chief Justice Earl Warren & SCOTUS affirmed judgment, rather than reversing the decision ( 352 U.S. 903 ( 1956 ) Hence , this was a landmark Federal Civil Right case thus challenging the Plessy v. Ferguson case , upholding Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka ( 1954 ) , Bolling v Sharpe , and other precedents.
Browder v. Gayle , 142 F.Supp.707