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Schools were not the only segregated areas in the US: there were also separate restaurants, bathrooms and water fountains for blacks and whites in parts of the country — something protesters held sit-ins to oppose as part of the civil rights movement.
Even now, racial tensions continue to plague America — where black people have faced hundreds of years of discrimination and slavery — and African-Americans still make up a disproportionate percentage of the country’s incarcerated and poor.
Brown, who was just a girl when the court case unfolded, became a school teacher later in life, taught piano lessons and worked with the Brown Foundation, an organization that seeks to promote the legacy of the case, according to its website.
She also “traveled the country with other family members lecturing about the history of this significant civil rights milestone,” the obituary provided by her sister said.
Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer paid tribute to her in a Twitter post on Monday.
“Linda Brown’s life reminds us that sometimes the most unlikely people can have an incredible impact and that by serving our community we can truly change the world,” Colyer wrote.
And the American Civil Liberties Union rights group hailed the impact of the court case.
“The Brown decision made America a beacon of hope to the rest of the world; it taught us that we could, through the rule of law, end a kind of oppression and race-based caste system,” the group said on Twitter.
“Today we honor Linda Brown and all the fights we have left to win.”
