Although most published accounts give her birth year as 1943, the Kansas State Historical Society claims Linda Brown (Thompson) was born on February 20, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas.
Assuming this date is correct, she would have been 9 (not 8) years old when her father tried to enroll her at the all-white Sumner Elementary in the fall of 1951, and 12 years old when the case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was decided in May of 1954.
At 12, Linda was too old to benefit from the ruling, as she was preparing to enter Jr. High School in the fall. The Jr. High and High Schools in Topeka were already integrated.
As of July 2010, Linda Brown Thompson is still alive.
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