For the Greater Glory of the Children

("Linda Brown with her parents")

It is hard to believe that in the United States of America in 1950 a third grader named Linda Brown with her friends had to walk a dangerous walk through a railroad switching station to get to the bus which would take her to school.  That bus then traveled miles to a school where only black children went.  Even harder to believe, is that there was a school only several blocks away from her home. That school only allowed white children. As any good father would,  Oliver Brown then decided to register his daughter in the white children's school.  He was rejected.  He did not stop there, Mr. Brown contacted McKinley Burnett who was the head of the Topeka branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Colored children had the same rights as white children.  They deserved an education where they were able to go to the school of their choice and have the books, classes and opportunities that all white children were afforded.


And so the story began.