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The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools
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Posted Jul 26, 2018 at 12:00 am.
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Linda Brown and her father Oliver Brown are heroes of the civil rights movement. The backstory of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education is more complicated than what you learned in school.
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