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  2. Brown v. Board of Education - Wikipedia

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    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.

  3. Oliver Brown (American activist) - Wikipedia

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    By the fall of 1950, the Topeka NAACP had assembled a group of 13 parents to serve as plaintiffs for the case that would eventually be filed under the name of one of the parents, Oliver Brown, becoming known as Oliver L. Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka (KS). In the Topeka NAACP case, parents involved were concerned that their ...

  4. Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

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    The current building was constructed in 1926 immediately south of the old school. It was one of many schools in Topeka designed by the prominent Topeka architect Thomas W. Williamson between 1920 and 1935. His firm, Williamson and Co., was hired by the Topeka Board of Education to design a series of progressive schools.

  5. Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later ...

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    Board of Education, a ruling commemorated at a national historic site in a former all-Black school just down the street. Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board.

  6. Topeka's Brown v. Board Historic Site gets new name and ... - AOL

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    Legislation signed Thursday makes a Topeka historic site the centerpiece of the multi-location Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park.

  7. Kansas evolution hearings - Wikipedia

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    The hearings were one of a number of Discovery Institute intelligent design campaigns that sought to establish new science education standards consistent with conservative Christian beliefs, both in the state and nationwide, and reverse what they saw as a domination in science education by actual science, specifically the scientific theory of evolution, which they viewed as atheistic, in ...

  8. Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later ...

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    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where schools were at the center of the case that struck down segregated education. “I like broccoli. Do you like broccoli?” Marie Carter, a Black school library worker, asked broccoli-hating librarian Amy Gugelman, who is white.

  9. This Topeka home played a pivotal role in Brown v. Board case ...

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    The former house of Lucinda Todd, 1007 S.W. Jewell Ave., sits vacant. The Rev. Ben Scott is looking for ideas to make needed repairs at the home.