Todd, Lucinda Wilson, 1903-1996

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Lucinda Todd, born in 1903, was an elementary school teacher and civil rights leader from Topeka, Kansas. She was one of 13 plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that would begin the desegregation of schools. She was also Secretary of the Topeka National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which brought the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to Topeka. She taught at Lincoln Elementary School in Joplin, Missouri. Todd died on July 17, 1996.

From the description of Mrs. Lucinda Todd papers, 1922-2007. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 706834011

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Death 1996

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