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Jasper Brown

1918–1997

United States

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Jasper Brown (1918–1997) was an African American farmer and civil rights activist from Caswell County, North Carolina. Local historical accounts describe him as a community leader who helped lead efforts to desegregate Caswell County's public schools in the 1950s and 1960s, working through the Caswell County branch of the NAACP and serving as a parent–plaintiff in the federal school desegregation case Jeffers v. Whitley.

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