Opening Doors bw
by Elizabeth Sullivan
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Opening Doors bw
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Elizabeth Sullivan
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Monroe School, one of four segregated schools in Topeka, KS began construction in 1874, it was rebuilt and changed hands multiple times, owned now by the National Park Service since 1993. It was designated a National Historic Landmark for its significance to the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case that unanimously declared that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and, as such, violated the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees all citizens "equal protection of the laws." Note that in the Brown case, the legal opinion was not that the schools for black children in Kansas were qualitatively worse in construction, books, etc. than the schools for white children. Instead, the opinion was that school segregation by itself was an unfair detriment to the education of black children. The holding that "separate" by itself was unconstitutional was what made Brown the landmark case in school desegregation. On October 26, 1992, President George H.W. Bush signed the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site Act of 1992, establishing the school as a national park.
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