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AJC Mourns Passing of Linda Brown
March 27, 2018
NEW YORK, March 27 -- The American Jewish Committee issued the following news release:

AJC mourns the passing of Linda Brown. She was the subject of the landmark United States Supreme Court decision 64 years ago that ended school desegregation. An AJC amicus brief was influential in the landmark ruling.

In the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren cited an AJC-sponsored study by Professor Kenneth Clark on the harmful impact of school segregatio . . .

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