Jeff Long Post No. 104

Historical marker location:

201 East Main Street, Harper, Kansas

( Memorial is at the intersection of Main Street (10th Street) and Washington Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street (10th Street).)

Marker installed: 1949

Born Aug. 30, 1925. Killed In Action Feb. 26, 1945.

Kansas was the site of the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case in 1954, which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional and paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement.