Letter to Charles Bledsoe from Jack Greenburg of the NAACP.
This letter includes revisions on a paragraph for the filings of the case of Brown v. Board.
Kansas Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers letter to the Board of Education.
This letter, sent to the Topeka Board of Education members in May of 1953, lists reasons why all teachers are needed and how it is unfair to exclude African American teachers, regardless of the then upcoming Supreme Court decision.
Draft list of the Plaintiffs for the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case.
Telegram to Charles Scott from Thurgood Marshall, April 6, 1955.
Mrs. Evelyn Harper, former principal of the African American Lincoln Elementary School in Atchison, Kansas, teaching a class at Atchison High school in 1955.
Mr. Robert Caldwell, teaching Graphic Arts class at Salina High School Central, 1960s. Later, Mr. Caldwell served as Mayor of Salina, an elected representative in Kansas State Legislature, and a member of the Kansas Board of Regents.
Mrs. Champine 5th Grade Class at Parkdale School, February 15, 1961.
Once designated as one of the city’s white-only elementary schools, Parkdale began including African American students in 1955.
In 1954, when Mr. Jesse Milan began his professional career in Education as a physical education teacher and counselor in the Lawrence, Kansas public schools, he became the first African American teacher in the Kansas #497 Unified School District. Later, Mr. Milan served as Assistant Professor of Education at Baker University.
McKinley Burnett (1897-1968), President of the Topeka Chapter of the NAACP. For two years, Mr. McKinley lobbied the Topeka School Board, convened community meetings, wrote letters and helped recruit litigants for the Topeka case in the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision. QUOTE: The Supreme Court decision “….makes me feel I’m an American Citizen in the true sense of the word. It will enable me to sing my Country Tis of Thee without making myself a hypocrite.” May 17, 1954, The Topeka Journal