A Turning Point for Equality

Historical marker location:

1515 SE Monroe Street, Topeka, Kansas

( Marker is on SE Monroe Street south of SE 15th Street, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2014

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.