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The case "Oliver Brown et al. v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" was named after Oliver Brown as a legal strategy to have a man at the head of the roster. The lawyers, and the National Chapter of the NAACP, also felt that having Mr. Brown at the head of the roster would be better received by the U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Oliver Leon Brown (August 2, 1918 – June 20, 1961) was an African-American welder 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.
When Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter in a nearby all-white school rather than the segregated one a mile away, he joined a class-action lawsuit that was already in progress. He was ...
Oliver Brown was a welder and pastor. [4] [5] At the direction of the NAACP, Linda Brown's parents attempted to enroll her in nearby Sumner elementary school and were denied. [6] [3] [7] [8] This allowed Brown's family to join the group of civil rights lawsuits coordinated and supported by the NAACP, which would ultimately be decided in the US ...
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Brown, Yale and Columbia universities have agreed to pay a combined $62 million to resolve a lawsuit that accused them and others of favoring wealthy applicants ...
Henderson quickly agreed. In the case, whose full name was Oliver L. Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Henderson was the last et al. listed on the plaintiff's side of the original case. [1] The lawsuit, with Henderson as one of the 13 plaintiffs, was first filed in 1951 in the United States District Court in Kansas.
The lawsuit requests that a court award Brown enough money to punish each defendant and “deter others from like misconduct,” in addition to other factors. Show comments. Advertisement.
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) - Amicus curiae for Oliver Brown; Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954) civil rights; 1957 Roth v.