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Topeka
Topeka , city (1990 pop. 119,883), state capital and seat of Shawnee co., NE Kans., on the Kansas River; inc. 1857. In a rich agricultural region, it is an important shipping point for cattle and wheat and a wholesaling, marketing, and processing center for farm products. There are insurance... Read more |
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Annette Bening
BENING, Annette 1958– PERSONAL Born May 29, 1958, in Topeka, KS; daughter of Grant (an insurance salesman) and Shirley Ben... Read more |
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Western Resources Inc
Western Resources, Inc. P.O. Box 889Topeka, Kansas 66601U.S.A.(913) 575 Read more |
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Karl Augustus Menninger
Karl Augustus Menninger , 1893-1990, and William Claire Menninger, 1899-1966, American psychiatrists, brothers, b. Topeka, Kans. The Menninger Clinic, conceived with the idea of collecting many specialists in one center, was founded in Topeka in 1919 by Karl and his father, Charles Frederick... Read more |
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Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis 1860-1936, Vice President of the United States (1929-33), b. near North Topeka, Kans. Of part Native American background, Curtis lived for three years on a Kaw reservation. After studying law with a Topeka attorney, he was admitted to the bar (1881) and entered Republican politics in... Read more |
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Atchison
Atchison city (1990 pop. 10,656), seat of Atchison co., NE Kans., on the Missouri River; inc. 1881. It is a trade and industrial center in a rich grain producing area. Atchison was founded (1854) near a military post, established (1818-19) on Cow Island in the Missouri, and named for David Rice ... Read more |
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Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education case decided in 1971 by the U.S. Supreme Court . The Court held that the constitutional mandate (see Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. ) to desegregate public schools did not require all schools in a district to reflect the... Read more |
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Kans Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
Kans. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. Linda Brown was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka because she was black. When, combined with several other cases, her suit reached the Supreme Court, that body, in an opinion by... Read more |
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John Steuart Curry
John Steuart Curry 1897-1946, American painter, b. Dunavant, Jefferson co., Kans. He spent his youth on his father's farm. In 1916 he entered the Kansas City Art Institute and later studied in Chicago and New York and in Paris. His early paintings of Kansas life, such as Baptism in Kansas, ... Read more |
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Busing
BUSING BUSING is the transporting of children to school by bus to achieve desegregation or racial balance. Until the late 1960s, the yellow school bus had largely been viewed as a symbol of progress representing the nation's transition from the one-room schoolhouse to the comprehensive... Read more |
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Topeka campaign raises home-buying issues between 2 cities.
...of public relations for the Topeka Chamber of Commerce. Sheahan...who have chosen to live in Topeka over Lawrence. "We know our...year, the two cities feuded briefly after Mike Elwell, owner of...Lawrence come from people from Topeka. That caused some ... |
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BROWN VS. TOPEKA: School District Still Hasn't Complied with Court
...segregation unconstitutional. The Topeka school district still is trying...federal appeals court.The Topeka district covers most of the...the late 1970s, the district briefly tried open enrollment, allowing...passed the ball off to the Topeka school ... |
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Topeka, Kan.-Based Trash Removal Firm Catches Up on Work after Closure.
...said Tuesday, but are playing catch-up after the company briefly ceased operations last week. Sheryl Cunningham, wife of AARDS...year-old husband had decided to call it quits after the Topeka-based company was named in a lawsuit and several workers... |
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Oldest Koch Brother Testifies at Topeka, Kan., Trial.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News TOPEKA, Kan.--May 1--It was the turn of Frederick Koch, a...least known of the four Wichita-born Koch brothers, testified briefly in the trial of the $1 billion-plus lawsuit against Koch... |
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Observing the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 1954 United States Supreme Court...
...the 50th anniversary of the Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas U. S. Supreme Court public school desegregation...I think that it is imperative that we examine, at least briefly, philosophies, societal patterns and court rulings that established... |
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Peace that comes through service
The Topeka Capital-Journal will publish its Briefly column and clubs and meetings calendar each...to news@cjonline.com; by mail to The Topeka Capital-Journal, attention Briefly in Topeka, 616 S.E. Jefferson, Topeka, 66607... |
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It's past time to build an economic community among African Americans
...strange fact is that it has not been developed in a sustained way across the entirety of black America. We saw it briefly in Topeka Kansas. There were limited examples of it in Harlem. There were even communities established such as Mound Bayou... |
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HALL CENTER TO HOST 10TH ANNUAL ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP ON MARCH 13
...child and attended the Kansas Vocational School in Topeka before deciding to attend KU in the 1920s. Oliver...area. After graduating from KU, Stokes worked briefly in Leavenworth and Topeka before moving to Seattle, where he raised his family... |
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CALIFORNIA RAILROAD HISTORY COLLECTION IS NEWEST GIFT TO UNIVERSITY'S HENRY...
...a 1,000 square-foot building with O-scale (1/48th actual size) model railroads. He also worked briefly for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway between high school and Fresno State College and as a train order dispatcher after retirement... |
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BRIEFLY EX-GIRLFRIEND SUES PHILLIPS
...University of Nebraska, a lawsuit said. Katherine McEwen, of Topeka, Kan., filed the lawsuit Aug. 16 in Jackson County Circuit...the Kansas City Star reported in today's editions. A judge briefly opened the lawsuit and then resealed it, The Star reported... |
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