Linda Brown, Center of Watershed Desegregation Case, Dies at 76
Four similar cases were combined with Brown's complaint and presented to the Supreme Court as Oliver L. Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al. "She stands as an example of how ordinary schoolchildren took center stage in transforming this country". She declined comment from the family.
Peaceful Rest Funeral Chapel of Topeka confirmed that Linda Brown died Sunday afternoon. The cause of her death has not been made public. The refusal of the public school to admit Brown in 1951, then nine years old, because she is black, led to the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
They were, and that gave the NAACP the leverage to file a lawsuit, led by future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
In 1954, the groundbreaking Supreme Court decision marked a pivotal point in American history by declaring racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional.
He was recruited by the NAACP, which had organized four other class-action lawsuits challenging high school segregation in South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia.
The Supreme Court ruling decreed that schools should be desegregated "with all deliberate speed" and that the "separate but equal" doctrine violated the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, which states that no citizen can be denied equal protection under the law.
May 17, 1954 - The Supreme Court announces its ruling, "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal;" overturns Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow laws and the separate but equal doctrine.
Linda Brown and her two children in 1974
The court's landmark ruling in May 1954 - that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" - led to the desegregation of the United States education system.
In a tweet Monday, Governor Jeff Colyer said, "Her life reminds us that sometimes the most unlikely people can have an incredible impact and that by serving our community we can truly change the world". "Linda's legacy is a crucial part of the American story and continues to inspire the millions who have realized the American dream because of her".
The daughter of the namesake of the Brown v. Board of Education case has died.
Her legacy is not only renown in Kansas, but nationwide, according to Kansas Deputy Education Commissioner Dale Dennis. According to the Brown Foundation, which promotes the history of the case, Oliver Brown was named the lead plaintiff "as a legal strategy to have a man at the head of the roster".
Brown's close friend Carolyn Campbell described Brown as a shy person: "Linda was quiet".
You can certainly make the argument even now that the spirit of Brown is being defied by those seeking to let parents use public funds to enroll their kids in private schools, providing a different but often parallel means of segregating students.
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