Jacob Alan Dickinson
Deceased Person
1911 – 1971
Who was Jacob Alan Dickinson?
Jacob Alan Dickinson 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. 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".
His father, William B. Dickinson, Sr. was an attorney and his mother, Alice Hillman Dickinson in 1927, became the first woman elected to a school board in the state of Missouri.
Dickinson was the senior partner in the Topeka law firm Dickinson, Crow & Skoog. He married Edith Senner in 1931 and had two children, architect and businessman Jacob Alan "Skip" Dickinson II and author Linda Spalding. His brother was journalist and editor William Boyd Dickinson, Jr.
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