Linda Brown Smith, right, and her two children pose in their Topeka, KS home on April 30, 1974. Smith was a 3rd grader when her father started the class-action suit in 1951 of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., which led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 landmark ruling in favor of desegregation. (AP Photo)

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