A Father's Walk to the Schoolhouse Door
In September 1950, Oliver Brown took his seven-year-old daughter Linda by the hand and walked seven blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas, to Sumner...
This is a contemporary on justice and fatherhood, drawing on Proverbs 22:6.
In September 1950, Oliver Brown took his seven-year-old daughter Linda by the hand and walked seven blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas, to Sumner Elementary School. He knew the principal would turn them away — and he did. Linda was Black, and Sumner was white. Every morning, Linda walked six blocks through the cold to a bus stop, crossing the dangerous Rock Island Railroad switchyard, then rode a bus to Monroe Elementary a mile from home.…
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