A&T State University. Her introduction into issues of segregation and educational equity began with her role as a child in Millicent Brown vs. School Board District 20, City of Charleston, SC, which was South Carolina’s first desegregation case in 1963. Dr. Brown grew up in an activist household as the daughter of a NAACP official who was president at both local and state levels and who has active since the 60s in civil rights work , especially focusing on police brutality and educational equity.