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Linda Brown, 1942-2018

She was 9 years old when her father sued the local school board so she could attend a school near their home. The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education changed America forever.

View of nine-year-old African-American student Linda Brown as she walks past Sumner Elementary School, Topkea, Kansas, 1953.  (Photo by Carl Iwasaki/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)


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