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Linda Brown Recounts the Case

Activism

Color screenshot of African American woman (Linda Brown) standing before a lectern.

2004

Linda Brown tells the story of her family’s experience.

Kansas laws required that Linda Brown attend a Blacks-only elementary school. In this video, Brown describes having to walk past a much-closer school to another school more than a mile away. She also describes her parents’ fight to provide her a quality education.