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Oral history interview with Leola "Williams" Brown Montgomery covering their role and impressions of the Brown v. Board case. Leola was born in 1921 and moved with her family to Topeka in 1923. She attended Monroe Elementary, a segregated African American school, with her brother. Leola married Oliver Leon Brown in 1939, and the two had three daughters. in 1950 Oliver Brown agreed to participate in a Topeka NAACP plan to integrate public elementary schools by attempting to enroll his daughters at a nearby school that only served white students. An edited transcript is included as Additional Information.
Date: November 15, 1991
Item Number: 514631
Call Number: Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Oral History Collection, Coll. # 251
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 514631
Collections - Audio-visual
Collections - Manuscript - Brown v. Board Oral History
Collections - Oral History - Brown vs Topeka Board of Education
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date - 1990s - 1991
Education - Primary - Students
Education - Primary - Teachers
Education - Secondary - Students
Education - Segregation and desegregation - Brown v. Board
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Audio recording
People - African Americans - Discrimination - Segregation
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961 - Civil Rights Movement
Type of Material - Audio - Oral histories
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