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Title
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Esther Brown
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Description
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Information about Esther Brown (1917-1970), a civil rights leader in the Kansas City area. Namesake of a park in Merriam, Kansas, in the area formerly known as South Park and involved the famous court case "Brown v. Board of Education," over rights of blacks in education, with photos.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Description
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Photo and bio of Esther Swirk Brown, or Esther Brown (1917-1970.) Description of her life and career as a native Kansas Citian "living in Johnson County, Kansas" during the start of her causes against segregation of schools for black children from others in the 1940s.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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A Pioneer in Civil Rights: Esther Brown and the South Park Desegregation Case of 1948
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Description
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Comprehensive article about Esther Swirk Brown, or Esther Brown (1917-1970), "a white Jewish woman from Kansas City," describing her late 1940s desegregation efforts, including helping to "combat segregation in suburban Kansas City's South Park township," with photos of people involved and the stark contrast between school facilities for blacks and whites. Description also of the early history of the South Park township in Johnson County, Kansas, founded in 1887, and the result of her efforts, "the U. S. Supreme Court's historic 1954 decision in 'Brown v Board of Education of Topeka' outlawing segregation in all American public schools."
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Date
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1995
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
