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This photograph shows Nancy Jane Todd Noches during her school days in Topeka, Kansas. The daughter of Alvin and Lucinda Todd; her mother was the first parent to register as a plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education case. The suit asked the Topeka school district to reverse their policy of racial segregation. The United States Supreme Court later "declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional."
Date: 1951
Item Number: 447237
Call Number: Lucinda Wilson Todd Coll. #825; Folder 35
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447237
Collections - Manuscript - Todd, Lucinda Wilson
Date - 1950s
Education - Segregation and desegregation - Brown v. Board
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - African Americans - Discrimination - Segregation
People - Notable Kansans - Todd, Lucinda Wilson, 1903-1996
People - Women
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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