التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Exploring The Parks: Brown V. Board Of Education National Historic Site. |
| المصدر: |
National Parks Traveler; 6/15/2012, p1-1, 1p, 2 Color Photographs |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
HISTORIC sites, MONROE School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), PLESSY v. Ferguson, EQUALITY, DISCRIMINATION in education, NATIONAL parks & reserves, FOREST rangers |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
TOPEKA (Kan.), KANSAS |
| مستخلص: |
The article offers information on a park which was formed after closure of school due to a dispute. In 1896, the Plessy V.Ferguson case held that states could have laws requiring persons to different races to use "Separate but equal" segregated facilities.Duing the period of 1876, there was inequality among African-American students and white children.The court case between Oliver L.Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka regarding Monroe School. On May 17, 1954 the Supreme court of U.S. unanimously overturned Plessy V.Ferguson case. Therefore the Monroe School eventually closed of falling enrollment and the building became a warehouse.When it was put up for auction, the Trust for Public Lands bought the site and transferred it to the Park Service and it was opened for visitors in 2004. |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
