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Sequential Timeline of Racist Incidents, Events, and Sites

Place Topeka, Kansas Clear place All places
1951
1951
institutional court case legislation

Brown v. Board of Education Filed in Topeka

Oliver Brown and other Topeka families sued segregated schools, producing the lead case in the Supreme Court's 1954 decision declaring segregated public schools unconstitutional.

Topeka, Kansas, KS
Education & schools Jim Crow
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Oliver Brown and other Topeka families sued segregated schools, producing the lead case in the Supreme Court's 1954 decision declaring segregated public schools unconstitutional.