Linda Brown Robinson, wife of the late Common Council president Van Robinson, reflected on his accomplishments and how he is ...

In 1954, Linda Brown was the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregated public schools for black and white students. Brown was 76.

Linda Brown, who at the age of 9 became the cornerstone figure in the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down segregation in the nation's schools, has died at age 76 in Kansas, according to ...

Linda Brown’s death is a reminder that many of those who participated in the Civil Rights Movement (such as Rosa Parks, Recy Taylor, and Fannie Lou Hamer) are no longer on this earth with us.

Linda Brown in a 2004 photo AP Brown's father, Rev. Oliver Brown, sued the school district in 1951. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) took up the case ...

Linda Carol Brown - born in 1943 - was just nine years old when her father Oliver, an assistant pastor at the St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, attempted to enrol her in the all-white ...

Oliver Brown tried to enroll his 7-year-old daughter at the all-white school four blocks from their Topeka, Kan., house. It led to a landmark Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, that ...

Linda Brown, who as a schoolgirl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that rejected racial segregation in American schools, died in Topeka, Kan., Sunday afternoon. She was 76.