Lucinda Todd was a Civil Rights Activist who paved the way for the NAACP to use Topeka, Kansas as the battleground place to challenge racial segregation in public schools. Todd gave up her career as a teacher when she started a family in 1935. In 1948, Todd began working as the NAACP’s Topeka Chapter as field secretary and offered her home as headquarters for the Citizens Committee on Civil Rights. She organized drives and petitions to oppose segregation in Topeka’s schools. Todd suggested to others at the NAACP that Topeka would be the right place to organize a coordinated lawsuit. This led to the recruitment of 13 families, starting with Todd’s own, to challenge the Topeka Board of Education’s segregation policies. The case that Todd spearheaded eventually became Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.