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Articles by Victor Morton

Linda Brown Smith stands in front of the Sumner School in Topeka, Kan., on May 8, 1964.  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.  In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the "separate but equal" clause and mandated that schools nationwide must be desegregated.  (AP Photo)

Linda Brown of Brown v. Board of Education case dies at 76

The girl who ended segregation in America's public schools has died. Linda Brown brought the lawsuit against the segregated schools of Topeka, Kansas, that eventually became the landmark 1954 case Brown vs. the Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools as "inherently unequal."

March 26, 2018