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- In greater Topeka, as in school systems across America, students of color are concentrated in districts that disproportionately serve low-income families. That racial isolation has lasting consequences as students who attend high-poverty schools have lower graduation rates and less earning potential.
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May 18, 2024 · Despite the high-quality education at Topeka’s all-Black schools, segregation itself still placed Black students as inferior. A panel featuring former students from all four all-Black Topeka schools shared in a group discussion about their experiences.
May 14, 2024 · As the anniversary nears this week for the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic May 17, 1954, decision that outlawed racial segregation in public schools, there are new books, reports, and academic...
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Oct 26, 2024 · We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other “tangible” factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?
Board of Education of Topeka, involved a Kansas statute permitting racial segregation in some of the state's elementary schools. In many states African American students were placed in schools that were inferior to those attended by white children.
May 16, 2024 · That racial isolation has lasting consequences as students who attend high-poverty schools have lower graduation rates and less earning potential. In school lessons, memorials...
In many cases, black students were forced by the policy of segregation to attend a designated black school far from their homes when a much closer elementary school, open only to whites, was nearby. Topeka was not the only place in Kansas where segregated education existed in the elementary schools in late 1940s.