Facilitated diffusion is a passive transport mechanism in which carrier proteins shuttle molecules across the cell membrane without using the cellâs energy supplies.
Linda Brown was born on February 20, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas, to Leola and Oliver Brown. Though she and her two younger sisters grew up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood, Linda was forced to walk across railroad tracks and take a bus to grade school despite there being a school four blocks away from her home.
Brown V. Board of Education. In May of 1954 in Topeka, Kansas, Linda wanted to go to a school closer to her home and challenged the ruling of segregation in schools. The court case found that segregation in schools to be unconstitutional; it reversed Plessy V. Ferguson and gave equal access to blacks and whites in schools.