Civil rights activist Linda Brown, who as a Kansas schoolgirl was at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing racial segregation in American public schools, has died at age 76. Linda Brown died on Sunday in her hometown of Topeka, Kansas, the...
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