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Linda Brown: US civil rights icon dies aged 75

Linda Brown: US civil rights icon dies aged 75

Linda Brown, whose father won a famous 1954 Brown vs Board of Education racial discrimination case against an all-white school in Kansas, has died at the age of 75.

She was a major figure in the civil rights movement and central to efforts to end segregation in US schools 60 years ago.

Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Washington, DC.

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