The Brown v the Board of Education National Historic Site is located at the former Monroe Elementary School in Topeka Kansas. It is this school that was considered "ground zero" of the fight to segregate America's schools. Inside the school, there is a small information desk and small store, probably where the Principals' office had been. The classrooms have been converted to different uses. One of the classrooms has been restored to be how it looked back in the 50's, and the other classrooms have been converted to house multi media exhibits that talk about how the fight for segregation progressed across the nation.

The exhibits describe the feelings at the time, and the various fights that were going on across the country to segregate schools. At this time, the NAACP helped some families to fight against segregation through the courts, and several of these fights found their way to the Supreme Court. Since Brown was first in the alphabet, the suit filed by Brown was the one that was put in the official documentation, but the decision applied to a group of similar suits.

The Historic site had a lot of videos that were contemporary to the time of the debates, in the 1950s. It also devotes a lot of time to the issues that led up to these debates, and how the decision by the Supreme Court changed education and the equality of races since then. The site is not large, but it describes a huge turning point in the history of the United States. More information on the side can be found at the NPS website at: https://www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm

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