Seven Blocks and a Nation's Conscience
In Topeka, Kansas, a young girl named Linda Brown walked past Sumner Elementary School each morning — just seven blocks from her home — then...
This is a contemporary on justice and wisdom, drawing on Micah 6:8.
In Topeka, Kansas, a young girl named Linda Brown walked past Sumner Elementary School each morning — just seven blocks from her home — then continued more than a mile to reach Monroe Elementary, because Sumner was for white children only. In 1951, her father Oliver Brown tried to enroll her at Sumner and was turned away. That rejection became the seed of the most consequential civil rights case in American history.…
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