Civil Rights in Kansas
The history of civil rights in the state of Kansas from Reconstruction to the 1960s.
Articles
Katz, M. S., and Tucker, S. B. (Winter 1995/1996). "A pioneer in civil rights: Esther Brown and the south park desegregation case of 1948." Kansas History, 18, 234-247. Retrieved from https://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/1995winter_katz.pdf
McCoy Van Meter, S. (Autumn 1978). "Black resistance to segregation in the Wichita public schools, 1870-1912." Midwest Quarterly 20, 64-77.
McCusker, K. M. (Spring 1994). "'The forgotten years' of America's civil rights movement: Wartime protests at the University of Kansas, 1939-1945." Kansas History, 17, 26-37. Retrieved from https://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/1994spring_mccusker.pdf
Sloan, C. W. (1974). "Kansas battles the invisible empire : The legal ouster of the KKK from Kansas,
1922-1927". Kansas Historical Quarterly, 40(3). Retrieved from https://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-battles-the-invisible-empire/13247
Wilson, P. E. (May 1964). "Brown v. Board of Education revisited." University of Kansas Law Review, 12, 507-524.
Woods, R. B. (April 1983). "Integration, exclusion, or segregation? The 'color line' in Kansas, 1878-1900." Western Historical Quarterly 14, 181-198.
Walters, R. (1993). "Standing up in America's heartland". American Visions. 8(1), 20.
There are a total of six articles featured below. These articles come from a variety of journals and online resources and cover key aspects such as: Brown V. Board of Education, Kansas history with the Ku Klux Klan, and the concept of segregation and desegregation. There are links provided when available to the individual articles.
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
"Father of the Exodus"