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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 23 > Zelma Henderson, sole surviving plaintiff from landmark 1954 desegregation case

Zelma Henderson, sole surviving plaintiff from landmark 1954 desegregation case

By Margalit Fox / The Bulletin
May 23, 2008

Zelma Henderson, a Kansas beautician who was the sole surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the landmark federal desegregation case of 1954, died Tuesday in Topeka. She was 88 and had lived in Topeka all her adult life.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, her son, Donald,....

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