African American Topeka

Author : Sherrita Camp
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439643881
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Topeka written by Sherrita Camp and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans arrived in Topeka right before and after the Civil War and again in large numbers during the Exodus Movement of 1879 and Great Migration of 1910. They came in protest of the treatment they received in the South. The history of dissent lived on in Topeka, as it became the home to court cases protesting discrimination of all kinds. African Americans came to the city determined that education would provide them a better life. Black educators fostered a sense of duty toward schooling, and in 1954 Topeka became a landmark for African Americans across the country with the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case. Blacks from every walk of life found refuge in Kansas and, especially, Topeka. The images in African American Topeka have been selected to give the reader a glimpse into the heritage of black life in the community. The richness of the culture and values of this Midwestern city are a little-known secret just waiting to be exhibited.

Author : Thomas C. Cox
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807124222
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacks in Topeka Kansas, 1865–1915 written by Thomas C. Cox and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development of a black community in the trans-Mississippi West, Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865--1915 is a thorough, insightful examination of an area of black history that has received, at best, scant attention. Thomas C. Cox probes in this study the political, social, and economic standing of blacks and the growth of black institutions in the Topeka area from early settlement during the territorial period through the rise of an urban Topeka in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Pivotal In the development of the black community was the Great Exodus of the 1870s -- the massive migration of southern blacks that brought the community new leaders, businessmen, and skilled laborers, and provided the impetus for establishment of institutions and elaborate social structures. Assessing the impact of the Exodus on social stratification and on the destruction of power, Cox closely examines the establishment of political and social clubs, the founding of churches, the rise of the black press -- including the influential Colored Citizen and Plaindealer -- and the emergence of such community leaders a John Wright, William Eagle son, and James Guy.The racial discrimination that permeated Topeka and intensified in the wake of the Great Exodus soon brought about organized protest by the black community to advance the causes of reform and social progress. As this movement grew in strength, it became a powerful bond that overcame divisions within black Topeka, and gave rise to a cohesive community grounded in strong local institutions through which blacks could challenge city, state, and national attitudes and events. In the case of Topeka, which in many ways was exceptional, discrimination helped to create a significant degree of self-determination.With relevance to American social history in general, Thomas Cox's Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865--1915 fully utilizes the methods and materials of social history -- including census analysis and group biography -- to conclusively demonstrate the significance of Topeka in the history of race relations and the growth of black political and nonpolitical institutions.

Author : Johanna L. Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African-American Community in Topeka, Kansas, 1940-1951 written by Johanna L. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kaavonia Hinton
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 154574923X
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954 written by Kaavonia Hinton and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After slavery ended, former slaves gained greater access to education, and free schools became available to children and adults. Over time, free schooling for African Americans in the South began to decrease, and the South became completely segregated. To make matters worse, in the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal. Believing the ruling was unconstitutional, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) hired lawyers like Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall to fight against segregation in schools. The NAACP started to look for African American parents who had children in public schools that were not equal to white schools. The five cases that make up Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, were heard by the Supreme Court. The Court s 1954 ruling completely changed the direction of American education.

Author : Thomas C. Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783785271
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915 written by Thomas C. Cox and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : KaaVonia Hinton
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781584157380
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KS, 1954 written by KaaVonia Hinton and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After slavery ended, former slaves gained greater access to education, and free schools became available to children and adults. Over time, free schooling for African Americans in the South began to decrease, and the South became completely segregated. To make matters worse, in the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal. Believing the ruling was unconstitutional, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) hired lawyers like Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall to fight against segregation in schools. The NAACP started to look for African American parents who had children in public schools that were not equal to white schools. The five cases that make up Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, were heard by the Supreme Court. The Court's 1954 ruling completely changed the direction of American education. Book jacket.

Author : Pansye S. Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brown Vs. Topeka written by Pansye S. Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling and engaging, this book analyzes whether or not African American students and administrators have reaped the benefits of desegregation.

Author : Charise L. Cheney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469681658
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacks Against Brown written by Charise L. Cheney and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) is regarded as one of the most significant civil rights moments in American history. Historical observers have widely viewed this landmark Supreme Court decision as a significant sign of racial progress for African Americans. However, there is another historical perspective that tells a much more complex tale of Black resistance to the NAACP's decision to pursue desegregating America's public schools. This multifaceted history documents the intra-racial conflict among Black Topekans over the city's segregated schools. Black resistance to school integration challenges conventional narratives about Brown by highlighting community concerns about economic and educational opportunities for Black educators and students and Black residents' pride in all-Black schools. This history of the local story behind Brown v. Board contributes to a literature that provides a fuller and more complex perspective on African Americans and their relationship to Black education and segregated schools during the Jim Crow era.

Author : Jacob U. Gordon
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of African Americans in Kansas, 1870-1992 written by Jacob U. Gordon and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an account of the black experience of the migration into Kansas drawn from the offspring of black settlers. Some of their ancestors came as slaves during the time of the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle to determine if Kansas would be free or slave. Others came during the Civil War and afterwards when "Exodusters" streamed to Kansas by the thousands to establish such settlements as Nicodemus and Dunlap, to serve as "Buffalo Soldiers" at Fort Riley and Fort Larned and to expand the sub-communities of Kansas City and Topeka through the 20th century. This primary source volume addresses the historical and contemporary lives of African Americans in Kansas and the impact of the African American presence on Kansas history.

Author : Kansas African American Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years written by Kansas African American Museum and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: