Full credit: Carl Wasaki/Life Images Collection/Getty Images  Linda Brown outside Sumner Elementary School in Topkea, Kansas, in 1953.

Full credit: Carl Wasaki/Life Images Collection/Getty Images Linda Brown outside Sumner Elementary School in Topkea, Kansas, in 1953.

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Linda Brown, woman at center of Brown v. Board case, dies

Linda Brown, who as a little girl was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended segregation in American schools, has died, a funeral home spokesman said.

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