Brown v. Board of Education

The hallway inside the old school building, exhibits are in the classrooms.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site is located in the former Monroe Elementary School. The park consists mainly of a series of educational exhibits in several different classrooms. The largest room shows a series of videos about several different aspects of segregation. Other exhibits included a fairly typical museum layout about school desegregation, and a room where kids could express their feelings about the Civil Rights movement in a variety of kid friendly artistic media. One thing I felt was missing was a detailed look at the mechanics of the court case.

According to the park's website, they are in talks with other communities that had similar court cases that were bundled into Brown v. Board about commemorating the case in other locations. The other cities are Claymont, Delaware; Washington, DC; Farmville, Virginia; and Clarendon County, South Carolina.



The front door of the old Monroe Elementary School.

Just the Facts:
Full Name: Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Location: Topeka, Kansas
Designated: October 26, 1992
When I Visited: June 16, 2008; day three of my road trip