Traveling Exhibit - Panels

 

Brown v. Board of Education - In Pursuit of Freedom & Equality - Traveling Exhibit
   
Panel 12 - The Pursuit of Liberty and Equal Opportunity Continues  

 Victory through the courts assured African Americans access to public schools. Education remains a focal point of the continuing pursuit of liberty and equality.

RESISTANCE
Many Southern states resisted the Supreme Court order to end segregation with "all deliberate speed". Violent opposition in Little Rock provoked a national crisis in 1957.


Students entered Central High School in Little Rock under the protection of federal troops.
Courtesy Arkansas History Commission.

The end to segregation affected teachers in schools in Topeka and across the nation before and after the 1954 decision.


Public School Teachers, Topeka, Kansas about 1949.
Merrill Ross Collection, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries. 


Loan from Veda Whiteside, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries.

 ACHIEVEMENT


Lowman Hill School, Topeka, Kansas, 1957.
Loan from Mrs. Zelma Henderson, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries.


Sumner School, Topeka, Kansas, 1962.
Loan Brown and Brown Collection.


Teacher Evelyn Harper (1913-1992) in Atchison High School classroom about 1955.
Courtesy Evelyn Harper Collection, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries.


Monroe School, significant in the Brown v. Board of Education case, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991 and joined the National Park System in 1992.
Courtesy Kansas State Historical Society.