On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court announced its decision that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision effectively denied the legal basis for segregation in Kansas and 20 other states with segregated classrooms and would forever change race relations in the United States. This site is a resource for information and source material about Brown v. Board of Education.

Applications are being accepted for the Teacher Quest Scholarship Program.
Submissions are due by March 20, 2010.

Learn about and apply: School District Field Trip Transportation Grants.

The 2009-2010 program series theme is taken from the Brown Foundation mission, which is in part to uncover and share little known diverse stories from our past.

All programs co-sponsored by:
Brown Foundation
and:
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site

September program co-sponsored by:
Washburn University

October program co-sponsored by:
Brewster Foundation

Series supported in part by:
Capital Federal Foundation

2009-2010 Programs

November 1-December 31, 2009
American Indian Realism (traveling exhibit)

January 1-31, 2010
The World Will Move: Civil Rights and Public Transportation, 1860s-1950s (traveling exhibit)

January 23, 2010
Plessy and Ferguson (featuring descendants of the principals in the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, which set the precedent for "Separate but Equal")

February 1-March 31, 2010
Color of Freedom (traveling exhibit)

February 21, 2010
Garrett Morgan: An Uncommon Inventor (documentary film and presentation by his granddaughter)

March 21, 2010
Women's History Month (the story of Jackie Ormes, first African American female cartoonist)

April 1-May 31, 2010
A Case About Diversity (2007 University of Michigan Affirmative Action cases traveling exhibit)

May 17, 2010
56th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

June 1-July 31, 2010
First Hand History (traveling exhibit)

August 1-September 30, 2010
Claiming Citizenship: African Americans & Works Progress Administration (traveling exhibit)

Completed 2009-2010 Programs

September 19, 2009
Hispanic Heritage Month Concert (featuring Afro-Cuban and Mariachi Music)

September 22, 2009
Gerald Torres
2009 Oliver L. Brown Distinguished Visiting Scholar for Diversity Issues

October 18, 2009
Something Semple: The Power of Langston Hughes (the story of Jesse B. Semple)
Performance Collage by Glenn North

September 20-October 31, 2009
Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Sueños (traveling exhibit)

November 14, 2009
Saturday Night at "The Down Beat" (featuring Native American musicians)