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  2. Brown v. Board of Education - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky (1908) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [ 1 ] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's ...

  3. Oliver Brown (American activist) - Wikipedia

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    Topeka, Kansas U.S. Education. Theology. Occupation. African Methodist Episcopal Pastor. Known for. Brown v. Board of Education. Oliver Leon Brown (August 2, 1918 – June 20, 1961) was an African-American welder who was the plaintiff in the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.

  4. Linda Carol Brown - Wikipedia

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    Linda Carol Brown (February 20, 1943 – March 25, 2018) was an American campaigner for equality in education. As a school-girl in 1954, Brown became the center of the landmark United States civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education. [1][2] Brown was in third grade at the time, and sought to enroll at Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas.

  5. Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later ...

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    Board of Education, a ruling commemorated at a national historic site in a former all-Black school just down the street. Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board.

  6. Brown v. Board at 70: We Need ‘uncommon courage’ to ... - AOL

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    Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas (1951). Although I was alive at the time, I was not a part of the decision-making as to why the case was named Brown rather than the earliest case, Briggs.

  7. Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later ...

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    Board of Education, a ruling commemorated at a national historic site in a former all-Black school just down the street. Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board.

  8. McKinley Burnett - Wikipedia

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    McKinley Burnett. McKinley Burnett (January 9, 1897 [1] – July 24, 1968 [1]) played a pivotal role in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka school desegregation case as President of the Topeka NAACP by recruiting 13 Topeka families to participate in the court action.

  9. This Topeka home played a pivotal role in Brown v. Board case ...

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