African Americans arrived in Topeka right before and after the Civil War and again in large numbers during the Exodus Movement of 1879 and Great Migration of 1910.
Black educators fostered a sense of duty toward scho.
African Americans came to the city determined that education would provide them a better life.
The history of dissent lived on in Topeka, as it became the home to court cases protesting discrimination of all kinds.
They came in protest of the treatment they received in the South.
African Americans arrived in Topeka right before and after the Civil War and again in large numbers during the Exodus Movement of 1879 and Great Migration of 1910