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Brownback says he will EXPLORING THE TURBULENT LEGACY OF DESEGREGATION talk to FBI if contacted about probe Wichita (ap) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said Tuesday that he will talk with the FBI if he is contacted about a reported investigation into allegations about the awarding of contracts to privatize the state’s Medicaid program. The Republican governor Brownback told The Associated Press that he has also directed state employees to cooperate fully if they are contacted by the FBI. “If I am asked, I will cooperate and talk with them, but I think this is mostly about a smear campaign,” Brownback said. “And Please see REPORTS, page 2A Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo
Survivor keeps bright outlook Three generations later, many schools are still despite losing racially isolated and the achievement gap is wide limbs in crash
MECCA CAMERON, A FIFTH-GRADER AT MCEACHRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Topeka, examines a historic photo showing Elizabeth Eckford, far left, attempting to enter a high school in Little Rock, Ark., on Sept. 4, 1957. Mecca and Kamarion Smith, right, and other students toured the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site on Monday in Topeka.
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Carolyn Campbell was just finishBrown case and feels a sense of ing sixth grade on May 17, 1954, at sadness. McKinley Elementary School in To“For our black teachers, it was peka, one of four all-black schools in really a sad thing for them bethe city at that time. cause the Topeka Public Today, she has almost no memory Schools board and superof that day when the U.S. Supreme intendent had already sent Court issued a landmark ruling them letters saying white parin Brown v. Topeka Board of ents wouldn’t want their kids Education that would put an being taught by blacks, and end to Topeka’s racially segre- Linda Brown Smith, shown in 1952, they didn’t renew their congated school system. And like was a third-grader when her father tracts,” Campbell said. many African-Americans who started a lawsuit, Brown v. Board, Years later, Campbell were around at that time, she that would lead to the U.S. Supreme Please see BROWN, page 5A looks back on the legacy of the Court’s 1954 landmark decision.
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Carolyn Campbell was just finishing the sixth grade in Topeka when the Brown decision came down. She now serves on the State Board of Education.
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In April, Deb Young returned to her Lawrence home for the first time in almost five months. Much had changed. Young, 56, lost her left arm and both legs in the aftermath of a car accident, which doctors were once almost certain would claim Young her life. Last October, she had been driving north on U.S. 169 in Neosho County when she collided head-on with a vehicle traveling in the wrong direction.
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The City Commission decides to consider several names for the recreation center at Rock Chalk Park. Page 2A
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Day 52 – Gearing up for my mastectomy tomorrow. Is it normal to grieve when you lose a part of your body? Read more about Megan’s surgical care. www.lmh.org/megansjournal
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