Longtime Topeka attorney George Pearson said Wednesday he had removed a brush pile and posts he put up to block entry to a section of the Landon Trail that passes through property he owns in southeast Shawnee County.
Pearson had said Tuesday that information he received from the Shawnee County Appraiser s Office convinced him he was within his rights to place the barriers at the trail s entrance to property he owns just northeast of S.E. 101st and Shadden Road.
But he told The Topeka Capital-Journal in an email Wednesday that the potential continued involvement of the federal government led him to arrange for the removal on Tuesday of the posts and downed trees, as well as a sign telling trespassers to keep out while warning lethal force used in self-defense here.
The Capital-Journal Socialism From Behind a Sewing Machine will be the topic of a free virtual presentation given at 3 p.m. Sunday via Zoom by historian Thom Rosenblum, who recently retired from his job at Topeka s Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site.
The presentation will focus on socialist Ike Gilberg, a Russian-born tailor who became known as the leader of Topeka radicalism after moving to the community in 1903.
To receive the Zoom link to watch Rosenblum s presentation, email the Shawnee County Historical Society at shawneecountyhistory@gmail.com.
Sunday’s event will be the latest in a series of virtual presentations being hosteby the county historical society.
Susan Duffy says she found it fascinating to participate in a past version of the annual field school held by the Kansas Archeology Training Program, which gives the public a chance to join professional archeologists in digging up historical artifacts.
Duffy thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the school, which she said really brought history to life for her.
She encourages people of all ages to consider registering for the 45th annual version of that school, which is to be offered in June on the land at Topeka s Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, 1515 S.E. Monroe.
The school will take place from June 4-20, the Kansas Historical Society and the Kansas Anthropological Association announced in a news release Friday.
KS Historical Society Press Release
TOPEKA The Kansas Historical Society and the Kansas Anthropological Association announced today that the Kansas Archeology Training Program (KATP) will be held at Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, in Topeka.
The annual field school will partner with the park and the National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC). The park includes the Monroe Elementary School and commemorates the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to end the nation’s legal segregation
The landmark victory for civil rights in America helped to inspire the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The national historic site is located where Monroe Elementary School was built in 1927 and the previous Monroe School was built in 1874. Both were intended as segregated schools for Black children, one of four in Topeka, until the 1954 court decision.
Credit: National Park Service
The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas. It can now be viewed as part of a virtual tour on the National Park Service website.
As President-elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris prepare for a new national administration, the Civil Rights Project at UCLA has issued new research underscoring the grievous segregation of Black students and calling on the new administration to act to fulfill the promise of the landmark Brown v. Board of education ruling as pledged in the Democratic campaign.
Providing an update on the current status of the nation’s Black students, the report, “Black Segregation Matters: School Resegregation and Black Educational Opportunity,” makes clear that the segregation of Black students has increased in almost every region of the nation and that Black students in many of nation’s largest school districts have little access to or interaction with white, Asian or middle-cla