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Article: Mildred Loving Followed Her Heart and Made History
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 6, 2008
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Sometimes people just do things because they think they are the
right things to do. Or, because they just want bothersome people to
leave them alone. Not everyone wants to be on "Oprah" and write
their memoirs, not even when they change history.
Consider Oliver L. Brown, a black pastor and railroad worker who
joined a lawsuit in Kansas for his daughter to be able to go to a
white school. Thus he became part of Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, the 1954 case that ended legalized segregation in America.
When he died in 1961, the local paper mentioned his church, that he
became ill during a trip to his in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary,
that he was 42 -- and not a word about perhaps ...