Brown

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Brown is a short name for the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 US 483 1954, which desegregated public schools in the United States of America. See also Jim Crow.

Brown is also the surname of several famous people:

• James Brown, soul singer
• John Brown, abolitionist
• Charlie Brown, cartoon character
• Clarence Brown, movie director
• Ford Madox Brown, painter
• Theo Wade Brown, designer and eccentric

Short for Brown University, an American Ivy-League university