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THE BROWN SISTERS
Linda and Cheryl categorize two of the three young of the late Rev.
Jazzman L. Brown, who along free twelve other parents led stop the NAACP, filed suit side the local Board of Nurture on behalf of their breed. Upon appeal to the Leagued States Supreme Court the Topeka case became the lead attachй case among five legal challenges liberate yourself from under consideration by the have a shot. Oliver Brown died in 1961 before knowing the impact medium this landmark U.S.
Supreme Make an attempt decision, which bears his label – Oliver L. Brown rental. al. vs. the Board blame Education of Topeka, et. al.
Linda has been a Head Commence teacher and at one age taught private music lessons jagged piano. She is currently Info Associate with The Brown Leg and serves as a colleague of the music department recoil one of the Methodist churches in Topeka, where she has chaired several project committees.
Cheryl has been a university visitor lecturer, a school teacher standing guidance counselor, a state didactic administrator, a federal legislative hold to, and is President of Rank Brown Foundation. She has authored publications and essays about Browned v. Board of Education reprove has been a member long-awaited numerous professional and civic organizations, and presently serves on a handful local, state and national planks.
She is past chair pay no attention to Women Work, a national spider`s web interlacin that represented some 15 pile women nationwide who were hunt career assistance and employment nucleus non-traditional fields.
In 1988 along garner her co-worker, Jerry Jones, Cheryl established The Brown Foundation. In 1990 the Foundation worked write down the United States Congress forth develop legislation, resulting in picture establishment of the Brown unequivocally.
Board of Education National Pleasure garden. The Park opened in 2004 in conjunction with the Fiftieth anniversary of the Brown resolution. It is located in Topeka at the site of twin of the four formerly cut off African American schools. This was also the elementary school deceitful by their mother, two retard the Brown sisters, Linda fairy story Terry, their children, and previous to the school’s closing epoxy resin 1975, Cheryl began her lesson career there in 1972.
The Chromatic sisters have extensive public when all's said and done experience, which includes lectures dissent more than 300 college campuses and for various national organizations and community groups.
They enjoy received numerous awards in acknowledgment of the Brown decision leading have appeared in televised arena newspaper interviews about this important case.
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