Segregation scene

Fifty years ago, on May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools in the Brown v. Board of Education case. In this 1955 photograph taken before the decision was implemented, Miss Abbott poses with her kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a school designated for African-Americans in Topeka. The photograph, from the Joseph J. Douglas Collection in the Kansas Collection of the Spencer Research Library, was used as cover art for this month’s calendar of events for the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. Today, KU’s Department of Psychology will present the second day of a conference,”Fifty Years after Brown v. Board of Education: Social Psychological Research Applied to the Problems of Racism and Discrimination,” in the Kansas Union. For more information call 864-4131 or visit www.psych.ku.edu/Brown. Joseph J. Douglas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries