This photograph depicts the second grade class of Monroe Elementary, with their teacher, Edna Vance, seated at the back of the classroom. In 1992 the Monroe School was designated a National Historic Landmark for its involvement in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka court case (1954), which determined that the racial segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
Date: March 3, 1949
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
This source can be used within discussions about why Topeka was chosen as the lead case; the Monroe school had nearly equal facilities to white schools, which allowed the prosecution to argue that segregation was detrimental to the development of black youth regardless of their facilities because it made black children feel inferior to their white peers.
KS:11th:3.1:Brown v. Board (2005)
Item Number: 208931
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.76 MRS *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 208931
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Education
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Ethnic Heritage - Black
Built Environment - Function - Education - School - Grammar School
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Teachers
Collections - Photograph - Schrock, John Edward
Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1945-1990 (Kansas_Benchmark 3) - Brown v. Board (Indicator 1) - Segregated schools
Date - 1940s - 1949
Education - Primary - Students
Education - Primary - Teachers
Education - Segregation and desegregation - Brown v. Board
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - African Americans - Discrimination - Segregation
People - Children
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946-1961 - Civil Rights Movement
Type of Material - Photographs
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