Some sad news headlines yesterday.
Linda Brown, the student at the center of the monumental Brown vs. Board of Education case in the 1950's that essentially began to make the end of legalized segregation in the United States feel all but inevitable, died yesterday. She was 76 years old.
“Linda Brown is one of that special band of heroic young people who, along with her family, courageously fought to end the ultimate symbol of white supremacy — racial segregation in public schools. She stands as an example of how ordinary schoolchildren took center stage in transforming this country,” Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said in a statement Monday.
The struggle continued, and there were many ugly and tragic moments to come, but the legalized Jim Crow segregation that was particularly prevalent in the southeastern United States did finally come to an end under President Lyndon Johnson, after tremendous pressure from the civil rights movement, particularly Martin Luther King, Jr..
However, it was this landmark case that really got the ball rolling, and began the momentum of what came to be known as desegregation.
A sad day for America regarding this, but what a huge case that quite literally transformed the political and judicial landscape of this country!
Linda Brown, student in Brown v. Board of Education case, dies at 76 Print By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Monday, March 26, 2018:
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