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In Pitts’s case, the history of the Kansas Technical Institute is just the beginning of a tale that led to Topeka Correctional, the school-to-prison pipeline, a community’s loss, and a distinctly unnerving world.
“Thinking that this was the Brown v. the Board of Education city, this should be just like Atlanta with the Black community prospering,” Pitts told me,
By Tamar Sarai | - ( Tomdispatch.com ) - Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, …
Topeka hasn't had a Black city council member in 15 years. Still, four African-Americans ran for Topeka City Council seats in last year's election.
The effects of redlining on Black and immigrant neighborhoods in East and North Topeka between 1935 and 1940 reverberate in health outcomes.