Grand Opening Dedication Ceremony
May 17, 2004
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site

Commemoration

Welcome by Stephen E. Adams
Park Superintendent

Welcome by Fran Mainella
Director, National Park Service

Welcome and remarks by Cheryl Brown Henderson
President, Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research

Audience Recognitions by
Professor Ronald Griffin
Washburn University School of Law
and Superintendent Adams

Remarks

Mr. Will Rogers
President, Trust for Public Land
The TPL role in the acquisition of Monroe School

Mr. Robert Stanton
Board Member, African American Experience Fund
How the AAEF supports the National Park Service

Dennis Hayes
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The Honorable James A. McClinton
Mayor of Topeka, Kansas
What Brown v. Board means to Topeka

The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings
United States House of Representatives

The Honorable Jim Ryun
United States House of Representatives

The Honorable Sam Brownback
United States Senate

Featured speaker -- Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
Cincinnati, Ohio (formerly of Birmingham, Alabama)
Learn more about Rev. Shuttlesworth in Topeka Capital-Journal article.

The Honorable Rod Paige
Secretary, U.S. Department of Education

Judge Craig Manson
Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior

The Honorable Gale Norton
Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
Preserving Our Heritage and Cultural Diversity

Mr. Justice Stephen G. Breyer
Supreme Court of the United States

The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius
Governor of Kansas

Keynote Address

President George W. Bush