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[https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/historyofus/web13/segment8.html by THIRTEEN PBS] | [https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/historyofus/web13/segment8.html by THIRTEEN PBS] | ||
Linda Carol Brown—who is seven-years-old and lives in Topeka, Kansas—has to walk across railroad tracks and take an old bus to get to school, even though there is a better school five blocks from her house. Linda can't go to that school because she is black, and the schools in Topeka are segregated. In 1951, Linda's father, the Reverend Oliver Brown, goes to court to try to do something about it. | Linda Carol Brown—who is seven-years-old and lives in Topeka, Kansas—has to walk across railroad tracks and take an old bus to get to school, even though there is a better school five blocks from her house. Linda can't go to that school because she is black, and the schools in Topeka are segregated. In 1951, Linda's father, the Reverend Oliver Brown, goes to court to try to do something about it. | ||
=====Living with Segregation===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/partners-living-segregation/ by PBS SHOWS] | |||
He went across the hall and went to Dr. Blalock's office and said, I would like my pay. The way you talked to me this morning, I can't take that. I wasn't raised that way. And I want my pay. — Nat Crippens, North Nashville community historian, describing Vivien Thomas's reaction after an angry Dr. Blalock swore at him. | |||
