Topeka

of how our hometowns came to. The hometown I grew up in was Topeka Kansas. Best known for the state capital and the representative's office. The majority race was white with over 100,000 people, following was Hispanics with around 17,000, and Blacks with about 13,000, and Asian, people with two races and Indians with less than 5,000. My hometown Topeka has always been a prominent white town with little to no diversity. If you look at Topeka in terms of…

given the opportunity to experience and see new things. Traveling is one the ways people can experience new things, some move to different towns others just visit. Emporia is a small town in Kansas with a population of roughly 25,000 people while Topeka with a population of roughly 127,000 people nearly quintupled the amount of people in Emporia. Towns are never alike yet one takes notice of similarities and differences such as the scenery, the way people act and how their education system works…

From the start of American history up until present day today, there have been countless railroads built, merged and even shutdown. Travelling by train is said to be one of the more convenient modes of travel even still today. According to Irish Times “Travel by train, it says, is stress-free, even relaxing. The advantages are that you can work, make and take calls on your mobile phone, read a book, eat a meal, have a drink with a colleague, snooze, stretch your legs and arrive feeling at peace…

segregation in their school districts. The five cases were collectively heard by the Supreme Court as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In May of 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that the “separate but equal” policy violated the fourteenth amendment, ending racial segregation in public schools. The ruling of Brown v. Board of Education was one of the most…

Primary Source Review: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas After many years under the “separate but equal” doctrine of the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), African Americans finally gained their first step to actual equality, specifically in school. The “separate but equal” doctrine established separate facilities, including separate schools, for blacks and whites that were said to be equal, but were not. In fact, whites only schools provided much better education than blacks only schools.…

facilities were equal (McBride). In the middle of the twentieth century, many people were working together to challenge these segregation laws. A man named Oliver Brown was one of the many people who challenged segregation laws when he brought the Topeka, Kansas school board to court. Brown v. Board of Education took place in 1954, and surprisingly, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown. This Supreme Court case was the best decision made in the twentieth century, and no other case…

pastor of St. Mark AME Church in Topeka, Kansas and he was also lead plaintiff of this case(Curry 7). Topeka 's local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People…

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) The civil war era produced plenty of racial uproar which then led to one landmark case the Plessy v Ferguson case in 1896 where the us supreme court stated that segregation is constitutionally legal under the “separate but equal” doctrine. This came to be when an African American, Homer Plessy, refused to sit in a Jim Crow car on a train, breaking a Louisiana law. However, when Plessy sued for violation of his constitutional rights, the…

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Parties Facts Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African American girl, was denied permission to attend an all white school only five blocks away from her home in Topeka, Kansas. Linda’s parents made the decision to file a lawsuit against the Board of Education of Topeka, alleging that they are depriving Linda of equal protection of laws as required under the Fourteenth Amendment. The courts denied that there were any violations of Linda Brown’s right because…

quality of education, and a future opportunity aspect. However, in 1954 the Supreme Court overruled the previous decision made in 1896, in a case known as Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas.) The case involved a man named Oliver Brown, who was the father of a student who had been refused entry into one of Topeka, Kansas’ white schools. The Supreme Court unanimously decided that separating children into different schools according to race, violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal…