At Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site in Arkansas, exhibits tell the story of those times, and interactive oral history stations give you a chance to hear the people who were there tell the story in their own words.
Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area shares the stories of 19th century Americans living in Kansas and Missouri who struggled to define the meaning of freedom during the Bleeding Kansas and Civil War years and how these historic struggles have shaped our nation’s concept of American democracy today as freedom for all continues to evolve.
In the 1840’s the Pappan brothers who were the first white citizens of Kansas created a ferry to help travelers cross the Kansas river. This area soon evolved into the Great Overland Station. This helped create over a 100 train depots connecting tracks through Kansas.
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka unanimously ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. This was a major turning point in the fight for public school desegregation.
