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Article: Educator fought for equal pay for black teachers
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- Capital (Annapolis)
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- October 13, 2009
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The family and friends of Philip Lorenzo Brown, a prominent
Annapolis educator and author who died Friday at age 100, remember
him as a gentle man who did not back down from a challenge, whether
it was getting children to learn or forcing the county to give black
teachers equal pay.
Brown, an African-American who served as a teacher and principal
in the county school system, is best known for leading the fight in
1938 to win black educators the same pay as whites.
That case, in which then-NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall
represented the black teachers, formed part of the foundation for
the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that declared school segregation
illegal.
When speaking to The Capital ...