Segregation in Topeka
School Segregation
PBS' The Supreme Court
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In segregated black schools in the 1950s, teachers were less educated, supplies were limited, and children walked far to school; making it impossible for black children to receive an equal education. Topeka, was allowed by Kansas law to segregate schools. Four out of the twenty-two schools were black schools. |
"It wasn't that black teachers didn't care or that black children didn't care about their education it was that the resources were so very little."
~Dr. Lauren Anderson: Assistant Professor of African American History at Luther College~