Brown v. Board of Education: The Untold Story

Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Charise Cheney’s project will shed light on the little-known anti-integrationist movement among African Americans in Topeka. Cheney was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, the city that came to symbolize the desegregation movement because of a lawsuit that challenged the school district’s policy of racial segregation, and then went all the way to the Supreme Court. But Cheney was surprised to learn that African American support for desegregation in 1950s-era Topeka was not nearly as widespread as she had thought.

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