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1950- Linda Brown’s father took her by the hand and walked briskly to the all white school four blocks from their home, and tried without success to enroll his child (“Linda Brown on…”). 


1951- Linda was nine years old, Oliver Brown attempted to enroll her at Sumner Elementary School in Topeka but was unable to because it was an all-white school (“Linda Brown”).


1951- Her father then sued the Topeka School District in 1951, in what would become the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. The Brown case was combined by the U.S. Supreme Court with companion cases from Virginia Delaware,South Carolina, and Washington D.C. (“Linda Brown”).


1953- This picture shows in 1953 the people that were fighting in the Brown v. the Board of Education court case against Linda Brown to keep racial segregation in public schools (“U.S. Supreme Court Justices”). 


1954- Linda Brown was the child associated with the lead name landmark case Brown v. The Board of Education which to the outlawing of U.S.  school segregation in 1954 (Biography).