Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
1515 SE Monroe St.
Topeka, KS 66612-1143

Phone: 785-354-4273

The 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision in Oliver L. Brown, et. al. v. the Topeka Board of Education, et. al. concluded that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," effectively ending legal racial segregation in the public schools of this country. That decision is commemorated at the former Monroe Elementary School, one of four segregated schools for African American children in Topeka.