Richard Klugar in Simple Justice reports that Louisa Pinkham Holt, who was on the staff at Menninger's and also a psychology professor at KU, testified about the effect of segregation on black children in the Topeka District Court Brown case. The NAACP attorneys wanted insure that Menningers was mentioned because they had found that some of the Supreme Court justices has been in analysis and respected Menningers. Also, the Topeka Capital Journal, in a May 2, 2004 article about the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board tells us the Menninger Clinic contributed to the NAACP to aid the case.
About Myles Horton?
Myles Horton, founder of Highlander Folk School, was in the Supreme Court building when the justices announced their decision. Horton happened to be in Washington D. C. on a fund raising tour - a perennial problem at Highlander) (Glen 132)
About Lucinda Todd's table?
Lucinda Todd's table was loaned to the Smithsonian Institution for an exhibit commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board. (Reported in May 2, 2004 CJonline article)
About Fred Shuttlesworth?
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was a featured speaker at the dedication of the Brown v. Board Historic site in 2004. The program can be found at: http://brownvboard.org/content/grand-opening-dedication-and-50th-anniversary
About Marshall Ganz?
Marshall Ganz, a community organizer for President Obama, dropped out of Harvard to volunteer in the Mississippi Summer which became known as Freedom Summer.
About Gage Park Swimming Pool?
In 1951 the swimming pool at Gage Park was open to blacks just one day a year. They were expected to use the segregated pool at Central Park. In an oral history Connie Menninger tells us integration of the pool came in 1957-58.
About Rosa Parks?
During the Montgomery bus boycott, the staff at Highlander Folk school found ways to support Rosa Parks financially. She had lost her job and her husband lost business in his barbershop. (Glen 137)Martin Luther King commented that Rosa Parks had geared her entire life for this bus action.
About Bob Moses first bus trip to Mississippi?
On his first trip to Mississippi, Bob Moses rode in the front of the bus from Atlanta to the Alabama line. At that point he moved to the back of the bus. In his words, "there is a difference between rhetoric and reality" (Moses 36)
About Martin and Coretta King?
The couple's decision to return to the south was partially based on the 1954 Brown v. Board decision according to Clayborne Carson.
About Bayard Rustin?
Bayard Rustin was a black Quaker from Pennsylvania with a passion for social justice. He was very much responsible for the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the 1963 March on Washington (Ransby 163).
About Clarence Jones and Harry Belafonte?
Clarence Jones, Martin Luther King's attorney, and Harry Belafonte took it upon themselves to provide support for Coretta Scott King and his children after the assassination. Clarence Jones had had the foresight to mark King's "I Have a Dream" speech with a copy mark symbol, so the royalties from that provided some of the income. (Clayborne Carson)
About KU Basketball?
KU's first black player was LaVannes
Squires, a reserve guard who played for the varsity Jayhawks in 1951-1954. Dr.
Robert Godwin, an optometrist in Topeka played with him. The team's first black
starter was Maurice King. He played three varsity seasons, beginning in
1954-1955. King was from Kansas City, Mo.; Squires was from Wichita. Wilt
Chamberlain played for KU in 1956-1958.
About Myrlie Manager?
Myrlie checks your cart against your receipt for number of items at Sam's in Topeka. Her daughter Richetta, an opera singer and Washburn Distinguished Alumni, is performing in concerts commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board. Washburn University is sponsoring the concerts May 8 at Helzberg Hall and May 9 in White Concert Hall.
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