• Exterior of Brown v. Board of Education NHS, the former Monroe Elementary School, at night.

    Brown v. Board of Education

    National Historic Site Kansas

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Collections

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site's collection consists of the items located in the Research Library. Since the site interprets the U.S. Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, physical items are limited mainly to documents which are of public record or held in private collections.

Local collections include:

Charles S. Scott, Attorney at the University of Kansas

Court decisions

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Plessy v. Ferguson court document

In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court institutionalized the “separate but equal” policy with the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.--Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site More...