10/2 Winter Quarters & Brown vs Board Museum

 We toured the Mormon Trail Center, aka Winter Quarters. It has lots of great exhibits. One of Ruth's ancestors is buried nearby so we visited the grave site, although it no longer has a marker.



Next stop was Topeka, Kansas at the Brown vs Board of Education Museum. We learned things we didn't know about the fight to end segregation. The fight was fought in Topeka because it really did provide equal schools for "colored" children. But Thurgood Marshall argued that forced segregation always teaches children that they are inferior. 

Very Nice Kindergarten Classroom for African American Students 

Summer earned another Junior Ranger badge. 



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