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Title
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A Pioneer in Civil Rights: Esther Brown and the South Park Desegregation Case of 1948
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Description
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Comprehensive article about Esther Swirk Brown, or Esther Brown (1917-1970), "a white Jewish woman from Kansas City," describing her late 1940s desegregation efforts, including helping to "combat segregation in suburban Kansas City's South Park township," with photos of people involved and the stark contrast between school facilities for blacks and whites. Description also of the early history of the South Park township in Johnson County, Kansas, founded in 1887, and the result of her efforts, "the U. S. Supreme Court's historic 1954 decision in 'Brown v Board of Education of Topeka' outlawing segregation in all American public schools."
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Date
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1995
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
