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Students in this First Grade Class reflect some of the racially integrated student bodies in Topeka’s elementary schools during the late 19th century.

Early 1900s Douglas County, Kansas Ms. Lotta Watson, teacher.

Mr. Russell Cartwright, Principal Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas.

Charles Scott was a lead attorney in the local case representing the Kansas plaintiffs in the historic Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision. Scott attended the Topeka public schools and graduated from Topeka High School. After…

Marshall was chief counsel for the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund and he argued the Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the Supreme Court on behalf of the Kansas plaintiffs.

This letter is from the Topeka school Superintendent, informing an African American teacher of how her employment would be affected if the Supreme Court decision ruled in favor of desegregating schools.

This letter is from Robert L. Carter of the NAACP, who was working with attorney Charles Scott on behalf of the Topeka plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education case.

This letter concerns putting together an argument for the Brown v. Board case.