Death
Zelma Henderson died in Topeka, Kansas, at the age of 88 of pancreatic cancer on May 20, 2008. She was the last survivor of the original Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case.
She was survived by her son, Donald, five grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. Her husband, Andrew Henderson, died in 1971 and their daughter, Vicki, died in 1984.
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