Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

And now Katie's final word.

Sixty-five years ago on Friday, the United States Supreme Court decided landmark case,

Brown v. Board of Education, which famously struck down separate but equal and said that

segregated schools and facilities deprived African-American children of a richer, fairer,

educational experience.

The case was sparked by third grader Linda Brown, who was turned away from somener elementary

school in Topeka, Kansas, and her father brought suit on her half.

The decision was 90, written by Chief Justice Earl Warren at the time, but there's still

more work to do.

In fact, the University of California at Los Angeles just released a report, 65 years after

Brown, looking at how segregation is still an issue throughout this country.

And back in March, we gave Linda Brown the final word during Women's History Month,

and given the important anniversary, we want you to hear her again to honor the 65th anniversary

of one of the most important judicial decisions in American history.

This week, once again, we give Linda Brown the final word.

It all started for me on a bombing day in the fall of 1950, in the quiet Kansas town

of Topeka, when a mild, mannered black man took his 7-year-old daughter by the hand and

walked riskly, four blocks from their home to the all-white school, and tried without

success to enroll his child.

The child of whom I speak was I, Linda Carol Brown, and my father, the late Reverend Oliver,

Leon Brown.

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