Linda Brown Passed Away!

Linda Brown (left) passed away. Her father Oliver aided by the NAACP and Thurgood Marshall successfully sued the Topeka School Board in the Supreme Court and won.

Thank you Linda Brown for breaking barriers. The famous child involved in the Brown v. Board of Education [of Topeka, Kansas] has passed away.

Because of the arguments of Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court overturned the controversial Plessy v. Ferguson ruling which made segregation legal.

The Brown decision made American schools become more intergrated.

Linda died in Topeka today. Her sister Cheryl Brown Henderson confirms her sister passed away at the age 76 years old.

Linda was a young girl when he father Oliver wanted her to go to a better school in the city. The school board rejected his request on the basis that black and white students couldn't go to school together.

Rev. Oliver Brown and his family.

Oliver sued the board and urged three other families to combine their lawsuits together. The case went from state to federal within two years.

The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision broke barriers.

It also caused a backlash. The backlash was White flight.

Suburbia grew because of white people getting upset over the decision. They fled the city and grew their communities out of anger towards government forcing integration of students.

This was later enforced through the 1971 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education.

Linda and sister Cheryl Brown.

Though Linda managed to change the world, white America found a loophole.

The established decided to leave the cities and created suburbs. Then soon the malls, department stores and discount box stores would soon move towards the suburbs.

It left the cities to minorities and the underclass. It created the Rust Belt in the Northeastern and Midwest.

Donald J. Trump is the whitelash of race relations.