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Oliver Brown (plaintiff)
Oliver Leon Brown (August 2, 1918 – June 20, 1961) was an American welder and episcopal pastor who was the plaintiff in the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case '' Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al''. In 1959, he was tenured as pastor of the city’s Benton Avenue AME Church from 1959 until his death in 1961. Biography and Supreme Court case Brown was recruited to be part of the Topeka NAACP legal action to desegregate the city's public elementary schools in 1950. At the time, he was a welder for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to study to become a minister. Attorney Charles Scott, his childhood friend, asked him to join the roster of parents who would become plaintiffs in the organization's case against the Topeka Board of Education. By the fall of 1950, the Topeka NAACP had assembled a group of 13 parents to serve as plaintiffs for the case that would eventually be filed under the name of one of the parents, Oliver Brown, becoming known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587. The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city. The city is well known for the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case '' Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'', which overturned '' Plessy v. Ferguson'' and declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. History Name The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dig potatoes", or "a good place to dig potatoes". As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose the name in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
