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Linda Brown
"Had there been no May 17, 1954, Im not sure there would have been a Little Rock. Im not sure there would have been a Martin Luther King Jr., or Rosa Parks, had it not been for May 17, 1954. It created an environment for us to push, for us to pull.
We live in a different country, a better country, because of what happened here in 1954. And we must never forget it. We must tell the story again, over and over and over. "
U.S. Rep. John Lewis at a ceremony commemorating the 48th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education at Topekas First United Methodist Church
Monroe School, where Linda Brown Smith attended in 1954 Monroe Elementary School, once a segregated school for African Americans , is now a National Park Service Historic Site. (Courtesy of National Park Service)
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