The US supreme court’s 1954 decision in Brown v Board of Education proved a landmark in the struggle for civil rights in America, and Linda Brown, who has died aged 75, was at its centre. The NAACP filed a suit, with Brown, first alphabetically, the named plaintiff in Oliver Brown et al v Board of Education of Topeka. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Linda Brown in 1953 outside the Topeka school that had refused to enrol her. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Six of the children involved in the case, with Linda Brown third from left. In 1994, on the 40th anniversary of Brown v Board of Education, Linda told an interviewer: “We feel disheartened that 40 years later we’re still talking about desegregation.

Source: The Guardian March 28, 2018 16:22 UTC