Accessibility

Brown v. Board of Education NHP is a place for all people. The site offers accessible picnicking, trails, and visitor center facilities.

Mobility access:

• Reserved accessible parking is available in the rear parking lot; there are four designated spaces.
• There are curb cut-outs and ADA-compliant ramps to the main entrance of the site.
• The gallery room doors are wide with lever-handles.
• Four accessible picnic tables are available.
• There are benches in the hallway for seating.
• An elevator is available for access to the second floor.
• The nearby section of the Landon Trail is paved and wheelchair-accessible.

Hearing access:

• Assistive listening devices for audio/visual exhibits are available from a ranger in the bookstore.
• Exhibit movies are displayed with open captioning at all times.
• Exhibit volume may be adjusted. Please ask a ranger for assistance.
• Sign language interpreters are available for special events. To request an American Sign Language interpreter we must be given at least fourteen days advanced notice in order to guarantee that an interpreter will be available.
• Transcripts are available here or at the front desk.
• Coming soon: audio description of exhibit movies.

Sight access:

- Audio described brochure. Available in both the Apple, and Google Play app stores.

• If either of those is unavailable, you may also download the raw mp3 (zip) 21.2mb files to play them on your preferred mp3 player.
• Braille map of visitor center floor plan is available.
• A Braille brochure will soon be available on-site, but you can currently download a copy here in Braille Ready Format (BRF) 19.4kb.
• Physical Models of the building
• Reliefs of important civil rights leaders.
• Coming soon: large-print brochures.

Other issues:

• Service animals are welcome in the building.
• Be advised: The exhibit "Hall of Courage" displays historic footage from the civil rights movement on four large screens which you walk through to view, two screens on each side. The images are constantly changing with loud screaming and yelling.

Individuals who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf/blind, or have speech disabilities may utilize the following Federal Relay Service numbers to contact the site:

[phone] Federal Relay Service
[phone] VCO
[phone] Speech to Speech
[phone] Spanish
[phone] TeleBraille