Santa Fe Trail / Council Grove

Historical marker location:

106 East Main Street, Council Grove, Kansas

( Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 56) near 2nd Street, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1906

1822 - 1872.

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.