Jacob Alan Dickinson (July 20, 1911 - June 1, 1971) was a Topeka, Kansas attorney and president of the Topeka Board of Education at the time of the Supreme Court desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education (May 17, 1954). Dickinson was a key supporter of elementary school integration which had begun locally before the Supreme Court decision. He welcomed the Court's action which he believed to be "in the finest spirit of the law and true democracy".
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Jacob Alan Dickinson 20 July 1911
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1 June 1971 (aged 59)
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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