Pleading the Case for Linda
In the fall of 1950, Oliver Brown walked his seven-year-old daughter Linda to Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, and tried to enroll her. The...
This is a contemporary on justice and fatherhood, drawing on Isaiah 1:17.
In the fall of 1950, Oliver Brown walked his seven-year-old daughter Linda to Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, and tried to enroll her. The school refused — Linda was Black. Each morning, she crossed through the railroad switchyard near their home to catch a bus to Monroe Elementary, the segregated school a mile away, while Sumner sat just blocks from their front door.…
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