Unlike Sweatt v. Painter, in this case 'tangible' factors were irrelevant so the court relied on intangibles for their justification, as they had in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents.  
Unlike Sweatt v. Painter, in this case 'tangible' factors were irrelevant so the court relied on intangibles for their justification, as they had in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents.  Named for a man who was concerned about his daughter's long walk through a rail yard, the lawsuit was planned by McKinley Burnett, president of the NAACP chapter in Topeka.  Notably affecting the Monroe Street Elementary School, this is, for 10 points, what Supreme Court case that overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal".
Unlike Sweatt v. Painter, in this case 'tangible' factors were irrelevant so the court relied on intangibles for their justification, as they had in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents.  
Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka