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Kansas woman drowns after kayak overturns in river

Published May 23, 2024 07:30PM

Kansas woman drowns after kayak overturns in river

Photo National Park Service

BOONE COUNTY —Authorities in Boone County Arkansas say a Kansas woman identified as 69-year-old Judy Henderson-Bailey of Topeka drowned last weekend at the Carver, Buffalo National River.

Just after 5p.m. May 19, the Buffalo National River dispatch learned of a possible drowning in the upper district of the river near Carver, according to a media release from the National Park Service.

Judy Henderson-Bailey, 69, Topeka, Kansas, was floating in a private kayak that overturned a ... Read more

Kansas lawmakers will return to Topeka as Gov. Laura Kelly r

Kansas lawmakers will once again go back to the drawing board on tax cuts.

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have cut state taxes on income, Social Security benefits and property. She supports many of the p ... Read more

Brown v. Board is 70 years old. Why are so many schools hype

First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education.

I was 21 when I started teaching at Hope-Hill Elementary School in Atlanta. I had big dream ... Read more

The Day After Brown (U.S. National Park Service)

Monroe Elementary School auditorium ca. 1940s.

At 12 noon on Monday, May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (347 U.S. 483) the landmark decision that ended legal segregation of ... Read more

70 years after Brown v. Board, former students remembers Topeka's all-Black schools

Published May 21, 2024 09:01AM

Carolyn Wims-Campbell is a former student of McKinley Elementary, one of the four Black elementary schools in Topeka.

Seventy years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that segregated schools were unconstitutional — opening the door to integration nationwide — Wims-Campbell said she is proud to have been educated in an all-Black setting.

"We were valued every day," Wims-Campbell said. "There was high expectations for us, for whatever we were wanting to do in life. The ... Read more

Authorities report drowning death on Buffalo National River

A woman, 69, was floating the river in a kayak when she was pulled underneath a submerged tree.

Authorities said a woman drowned on the Buffalo National River in Newton County.According to a National Parks Service press release, Judy Hen ... Read more

Supreme Court’s Landmark Brown v. Board Decision Marks 70t

Seventy years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education centered on Linda Brown, a young Black student denied admission to her neighb ... Read more

On This Day in 1954 – Brown v. Board of Education is Decid

May 17, 1954: In a major civil rights victory, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional. The historic decision ... Read more

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