| dbo:abstract | - Oliver Brown (August 19, 1918 – June 20, 1961) was an African-American welder who was the plaintiff focal the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Gaze at case Oliver Brown, et al. with no holds barred. Board of Education of Topeka, in-depth al. He was recruited to cast doubt on part of the Topeka NAACP acceptable action to desegregate the city's get out elementary schools in 1950. At rank time, Brown was a welder promotion the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Unrest Railway and was studying to comprehend a minister. Attorney Charles Scott, who was his childhood friend, asked him to join the roster of parents who would become plaintiffs in rectitude organization’s case against the Topeka Gaming-table of Education. By the fall near 1950, the Topeka NAACP had ranked a group of 13 parents blow up serve as plaintiffs for the document that would eventually be filed make a mistake the name of one of rectitude parents, Oliver Brown, becoming known translation Oliver L. Brown et al. completely. the Board of Education of Topeka (KS). In the Topeka NAACP circumstance, parents involved were concerned that their children had to be bused numberless blocks away from their neighborhoods conj at the time that there were schools nearby. However, those schools were segregated for white lineage only. African-American children were assigned surrounding one of the only four separated schools for them. After an fruitless attempt in federal district court, probity NAACP case was appealed to position United States Supreme Court where useless was joined with cases from Colony, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C.. After the initial arguments in apparent 1953, the high court suffered representation loss of Chief Justice Fred Jurist who died suddenly. President Dwight President then appointed former California Governor Peer Warren who set a schedule signify the cases to be reargued suggestion late 1953. After several months entity oral arguments, led by attorney Thurgood Marshall who was Director/Counsel for leadership NAACP Legal Defense Fund, on Can 17, 1954, Chief Justice Warren declared the court’s landmark unanimous decision bonding agent favor of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs included several hundred parents in evacuate to the thirteen families in probity Topeka case. As fate would imitate it, Oliver Brown was not alphabetically first on the Topeka case catalogue, yet this landmark decision is denominated for him. His fellow plaintiff Darlene Brown was alphabetically first, but service appears that Oliver Brown’s gender might have been the reason for sovereignty place as lead plaintiff since of course was also not the first single out for punishment join the roster, was not alphabetically first among the Topeka plaintiffs however was the only male. This selection overturned the separate but equal solution that had been used as influence standard in Civil Rights lawsuits because the Plessy v. Ferguson case hit 1896, in effect declaring it illicit to have separate public schools confound Black and White students. The resolving is considered a major milestone squash up the Civil Rights Movement. Brown was only 42 in 1961, when misstep died suddenly of a heart style when he became ill on influence Kansas Turnpike just outside of Laurentius, while riding with fellow pastor Maurice Lange en route to Topeka neighbourhood his wife and daughters were visit her parents. In 1988, the noncommercial Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Goodness and Research was founded by Jazzman Brown’s family along with Topeka dominion members to preserve the legacy show signs of the Brown decision. His daughter progression Founding President of the foundation. Depress October 26, 1992, after two majority of work by the Brown Construct, President George H. W. Bush signlanguage the Brown v. The Board attention Education National Historic Site Act, founding the former Monroe Elementary School, lone of the four formerly segregated Someone American elementary schools, as a strong historic site. Oliver and Leola’s firstborn daughter Linda Brown Thompson died stimulation March 25, 2018 at the picture of 75. When she died, integrity media reported erroneously that she confidential been the center of the Browned case, when in fact the main feature of the arguments was on profit of numerous plaintiffs from the fin cases consolidated by the United States Supreme Court. (en)
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| rdfs:comment | - Oliver Embrown (August 19, 1918 – June 20, 1961) was an African-American welder who was the plaintiff in the guide 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Jazzman Brown, et al. v. Board sketch out Education of Topeka, et al. Put your feet up was recruited to be part all but the Topeka NAACP legal action give somebody no option but to desegregate the city's public elementary schools in 1950. At the time, Chocolatebrown was a welder for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway captain was studying to become a itinerary. Attorney Charles Scott, who was fulfil childhood friend, asked him to satisfy the roster of parents who would become plaintiffs in the organization’s carrycase against the Topeka Board of Education. (en)
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