Oliver brown civil rights biography assignments
Oliver brown civil rights biography assignments
Oliver brown biography.
Civil Rights Digital Library
- Authoritative Name:
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961
- Biography:
- Brown was plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka, 1954. Oliver Brown, one of thirteen plaintiffs, had agreed to participate on behalf of his seven-year-old daughter Linda, who had to walk six blocks to board a school bus that drove her to the all-black Monroe School a mile away.
-- "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty, Library of Congress WWW site.
Oliver brown
- Associated Subjects:
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961--Trials, litigation, etc. - Archival Collections And Reference Resources:
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Letter, 1961 Dec.
11, (Columbia, S.C.), John H. McCray, to Joseph A. DeLaine, Sr., (Hollis, Long Island, N.Y.)
- Creator:
- McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987
- Date of Original:
- 1961-12-11
- Collection:
- Rev.
Joseph A. DeLaine Papers ca. 1918-2000
- Contributing Institution:
- South C