# Linda Brown dead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linda-brown-dead/811436>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 29, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linda-brown-dead/811436 "2018-03-29T21:43:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linda-brown-dead/811436/1 "2018-03-29T21:43:34Z")

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Definitely neither mundane nor pointless, but I couldn’t figure out where else to place this.

> **[Linda Brown, student at the center of landmark Brown v. Board of Education,...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/linda-brown-student-at-the-center-of-landmark-brown-vs-board-of-education-dead-at-75/)**
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> Brown was in third grade in 1950 when she was denied admission to an all-white elementary school

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linda-brown-dead/811436/2 "2018-03-29T22:38:08Z")

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Here in Topeka, the flags are at half staff.

Sumner school is a boarded up wreck. If Brown had been allowed to go there and help break the segregation barrier, it might be a National Historic site and museum, instead of the further away school she had to attend.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linda-brown-dead/811436/3 "2018-03-29T22:54:58Z")

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I checked her funeral information here.

> **[Linda Brown Thompson - Sunday, March 25th, 2018](http://peacefulrestfuneralchapel.frontrunnerpro.com/book-of-memories/3459827/Brown-Thompson-Linda/service-details.php)**
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> Linda Brown Thompson 75, of Topeka, passed away March 25, 2018 at Lexington Park Nursing & Post Acute Center. She was born February 20, 1943 in Topeka, Kansas, the first of three children born to Oliver and Leola Brown. She was preceded in...

Her home congregation was St. Mark’s AME but the funeral will be held at St. John’s AME, and I’m guessing it’s because the latter is a lot bigger. There’s going to be a ton of people there I’m sure.

I noticed the family is saying there will be no media coverage inside the church. That’s pretty much the way it would be in my church too. We aren’t even supposed to take pictures during events like baptisms or weddings, and are told to pose before or after the actual service.