Oliver Brown (civil rights)

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Oliver Brown (July 2, 1903 in Baltimore, Maryland^{[citation needed]} - 1961) was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of 1954. The Court overturned the doctrine of separate but equal for public schools.

He was a minister who died of a heart-attack in Springfield, Missouri. His daughter Cheryl Brown Henderson works with the nonprofit Brown Foundation.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Newsday: 2004

[edit] External links

• Brown v. Board at 50 - providing opportunity
• The Road to Brown