Oliver Brown, an African American welder and assistant pastor, brings a case against the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his 9-year-old daughter, Linda Brown, to attend Sumner ...

Mayor Ken McClure declared Sunday Rev. Oliver Brown Day in Springfield ... Her parents were homeowners in an integrated neighborhood in Kansas, Henderson said. Her father had a union job and ...

One was known nationally. The Rev. Oliver Brown, lead plaintiff in the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas, was pastor of the church from ...