Linda Brown is best remembered as the subject of the lawsuit that led to the Brown v. Board of Education decision which eventually impacted public schools across the United States. Brown was born on February 20, , in Topeka, Kansas. She was the daughter of Oliver and Leola Brown. Her father was the minister at St. In , when Linda was nine years old, Oliver Brown attempted to enroll her at Sumner Elementary School in Topeka but was unable to because it was an all-white school.
Linda and her siblings had to walk two miles just to reach the bus that transported them to the black school. Linda died at the age of Seventy Five years. She was born to Oliver Brown and Leola Brown. She was brought up alongside two siblings. The elementary school was an all-white school, and hence she was not allowed to join due to her color. The case to be heard first turned out to be Brown v. Board of Education due to its alphabetical arrangements. She at this time did not have the right to attend the segregated schools.
She later joined junior high school. Though she and her two younger sisters grew up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood, Brown was forced to walk across railroad tracks and take a bus to grade school despite there being a school four blocks away from her home. This was due to the elementary schools in Topeka being racially segregated, with separate facilities for Black and white children. In , the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP asked a group of African American parents that included Oliver Brown to attempt to enroll their children in all-white people schools, with the expectation that they would be turned away.
Oliver attempted to do so with Brown, who was in third grade at the time and barred from enrollment at Sumner Elementary.
The strategy was for the civil rights group to file a lawsuit on behalf of the 13 families, who represented different states. With Brown's name happening to alphabetically top the list of plaintiffs, the case would come to be known as Brown v.
Board of Education and be taken to the Supreme Court. The lead attorney working on behalf of the plaintiffs was future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. An aim of the case was to bring down the precedent set up by the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson , which sanctioned the idea of "separate but equal" facilities for racial divisions.
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Campbell attended St. Before her death, the church dedicated the piano to her. Read More. Campbell described her as a "very quiet person, but spiritual, patient and very kind. Board of Education meant to her. Her legacy will be that she shared all of her life with all of us," Campbell said. She was also instrumental in one of the church day care programs, Campbell said. A 'normal' schoolchild who transformed the country. The court ruled in May that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," a violation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, which states that no citizen can be denied equal protection under the law.
She stands as an example of how ordinary schoolchildren took center stage in transforming this country," said Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
The ruling overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, which established the separate but equal doctrine that formed the legal basis for Jim Crow laws. The court directed schools to desegregate "with all deliberate speed," but it failed to establish a firm timetable for doing so. The Supreme Court would outline the process of school desegregation in Brown II in , but it would take years for schools across the nation to fully comply.
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