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Linda Brown of Brown v. Board dies at 75
Linda Brown, central to the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that ended school segregation, died at age 75 in Topeka. Her father Oliver Brown faced denial when attempting to enroll his children in an all white school, prompting the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to file the suit that challenged public school segregation. The case helped spark a national civil rights transformation.
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Linda Brown
Brown v. Board of Education
Topera
Kansas
U.S. Supreme Court
Oliver Brown
Topeka
NAACP
Supreme Court
Sherrilyn Ifill
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc