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Tag: Brown vs. Board of Education

What did Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø look like in 1776?

By Hunter Feyerherm on Mar. 07, 2026

Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø in 1776 If you were to time-travel to 1776, you'd find that when America declared independence, Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø, like most states, wasn't part of the original 13 colonies. In fact, when the Declaration of Independence was signed, Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø was under the dominion of the Spanish Empire. Yet the story of…

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Explore 8 Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Places with Living Heritage

By Debbie Leckron Miller on Jun. 14, 2024

Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area includes the sites of extraordinary events that forever changed America. In the nineteenth century, the nation was focused on the Missouri-Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø border, where peoples with different definitions of freedom collided, inciting and fueling a Civil War. The…

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10 Places for a Quick Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Getaway

By Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø on Oct. 24, 2022

Ready to grab your kiddos and hit the road? Below is a list of 10 family-friendly Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø destinations: Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø City Metro Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø City Metro is a great spare-of-the-moment vacation. Throw some overnight bags in the car and enjoy a stay at Great Wolf Lodge, Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø City’s premiere indoor waterpark…

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Buried Beneath Monroe: Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Archeology Training Program Field School

By Nikki Klarmann on Mar. 05, 2022

Opportunity to explore the buried past of Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site History Underground Image of Monroe Elementary School from 1927-1929 | Photo credit: https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/9338 People from all over visit the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic…

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8 Memorable Stops along The Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø African American History Trail

By Jess Hoffert on Feb. 01, 2022

The Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø motto Ad Astra Per Aspera (to the stars through difficulties) aptly describes the trajectory Black Kansans have followed over centuries of oppression and hardship. As the Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Territory was being settled in the 1850s, a deeply unsettling era known as Bleeding Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø began. Proslavery…

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10 Ways to Travel Through Time

By Gary Thompson on Jan. 21, 2019

Nothing feels very far in the past at these portals to another era. Engage all your senses as you see planes, a powwow, basketball’s founding documents and a subterranean world. 1. Trace the Fight for Rights Reflect on a milestone in the civil rights movement with a visit to a historic Topeka…

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African American History in Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø

By Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø on Feb. 15, 2018

Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø links political, social, racial and cultural issues that continue to define and shape today’s social landscape. From “Bleeding Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø” to Brown v. Board of Education, Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø offers unique pieces of Black History. Each historic site unveils history in a way never seen before. Travel the state…

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