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Oliver Leon Brown was an American welder and episcopal pastor who was the plaintiff in the landmark 1954 United States Supreme Court case Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al. In 1959, he was tenured as pastor of the Benton Avenue AME Church in Springfield, Missouri from 1959 until his death in 1961.