Giving Compass' Take:

• The 74 collects tributes and memorials for Linda Brown, the third-grader who became the face of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which overturned segregation. Brown passed away at the age of 75 in March.

• More than 63 years after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Brown family, are we still progressing when it comes to equity in education? In many ways, we still have a long way to go.

• One way that organizations can help keep Brown's legacy alive is in the area of personalized learning.

It was a short walk home, but Linda Brown remembered the tension as her father gripped her hand after a meeting with the principal of an all-white grade school in Topeka, Kansas. The principal wouldn’t let Oliver Brown enroll his daughter, Linda, in the school, even though it was closer to her home. Instead, she had to take a lengthy route every day along train tracks and across a busy road to attend a black school.

That tense walk home was the beginning of the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case that unanimously overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson. Oliver Brown became one of a dozen plaintiffs in several states to challenge school segregation.

Linda Brown died in her hometown of Topeka in March, at age 75. An education consultant and public speaker, she was one of many plaintiffs to reopen the original Brown case in 1979 to argue that Topeka’s schools were still not fully integrated. “The Brown case ‘might have been a little flame,” Linda Brown once said, according to Education Week. “‘But it served to set off a mighty flame.’”

As a teenager, she wondered if she’d see her court case in a history textbook. In fact, her name has been “etched in history,” as EdWeek wrote, heralding Brown’s permanent impact on school inclusion, the civil rights movement, and what it really means to be a U.S. citizen.

Read the full article about remembering Linda Brown, who was the face of Brown v. Board of Education, by Laura Fay at The 74.