2 chapters across the catalog
The story of Linda Brown in 1951 Topeka, Kansas, serves as the catalyst for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. Despite living in an integrated neighborhood with a white school nearby, Brown was forced to commute to a distant black school, leading her father to seek legal action.
Linda Brown Thompson describes the confusion of growing up in an integrated neighborhood where children of all races played together, only to be separated by the school system. She notes that while other minorities were often permitted in white schools, black children were specifically excluded.
