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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.
The Board of Education National Historic Site Act, establishing the former Monroe Elementary School, one of the four formerly segregated African American elementary schools, as a national historic site. [2] [3] [4] Oliver and Leola’s eldest daughter Linda Brown Thompson died on March 25, 2018, at the age of 75. When she died, the media ...
McKinley Langford Burnett was born in Oskaloosa, Kansas in 1897. In his years of growing up he encountered many acts of discrimination. In school he was not allowed to participate in plays unless he was dancer, in the Army as a soldier he was discriminated against, and as a supply clerk for the Veterans Administration he had many limits because of his skin color.
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.
Legislation signed Thursday makes a Topeka historic site the centerpiece of the multi-location Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park.
Linda Brown was born in Topeka, Kansas, on February 20, 1943.She was the oldest of three daughters of Leola and Oliver Brown. [3] Oliver Brown was a welder and pastor. [4] [5] At the direction of the NAACP, Linda Brown's parents attempted to enroll her in nearby Sumner elementary school and were denied.
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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.