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.
Linda Brown was the daughter of Oliver Brown, one of the petitioners in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954), the landmark US Supreme Court case that declared segregation in pu â¦ blic schools unconstitutional.