IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 382 
Honoring the 65th anniversary of the landmark decision of the Supreme 
Court in Brown v. Board of Education (347 U.S. 483 (1954)). 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 14, 2019 
Mr. WATKINS (for himself, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mr. MARSHALL, and Mr. 
ESTES) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring the 65th anniversary of the landmark decision 
of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education 
(347 U.S. 483 (1954)). 
Whereas, in 1950, 9-year-old Linda Brown, the daughter of 
Oliver L. Brown, was denied entry into the all White 
Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, and 
forced to attend the all Black Monroe Elementary School 
in Topeka, Kansas; 
Whereas, on February 28, 1951, the complaint in Brown v. 
Board of Education was filed with the United States Dis-
trict Court for the District of Kansas, with Oliver L. 
Brown as the lead plaintiff; 
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Whereas the plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education ap-
pealed the ruling of the district court to the Supreme 
Court; 
Whereas, at the Supreme Court, the case of Brown v. Board 
of Education was combined with other cases from South 
Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and the District of Colum-
bia regarding segregation in public schools; 
Whereas Thurgood Marshall argued the case of Brown v. 
Board of Education before the Supreme Court as lead 
counsel for the appellants; 
Whereas, on May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court delivered a 
unanimous opinion holding that— 
(1) separate educational facilities are inherently un-
equal; and 
(2) the ‘‘separate but equal’’ doctrine violated the 
14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States, which states that no citizen may be denied equal 
protection under the law; 
Whereas Brown v. Board of Education (347 U.S. 483 
(1954))— 
(1) overruled the 1896 decision in Plessy v. Fer-
guson (163 U.S. 537 (1896)); 
(2) ended discriminatory Jim Crow laws; and 
(3) invalidated the ‘‘separate but equal’’ doctrine, 
ending segregated classrooms in Kansas and across the 
United States; 
Whereas, in a second opinion issued on May 31, 1955, the 
Supreme Court decreed that schools should be deseg-
regated with all deliberate speed; 
Whereas, because of the role that Linda Brown played in 
ending racial segregation in the United States, Linda 
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Brown became a civil rights icon and continued to be a 
voice for school desegregation in Topeka, Kansas; 
Whereas Linda Brown passed away on March 27, 2018, at 
the age of 75 in Topeka, Kansas; and 
Whereas Congress established the Brown v. Board of Edu-
cation National Historic Site, which is located at Monroe 
Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, the school that 
Linda Brown attended: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives recog-
nizes and celebrates— 
(1) the 65th anniversary of the landmark deci-
sion of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of 
Education (347 U.S. 483 (1954)); and 
(2) the contribution the decision has made to— 
(A) equal education; and 
(B) equal justice under the law, which is 
recognized in the Declaration of Independence 
and guaranteed by the Constitution of the 
United States. 
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