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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

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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

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

Topeka woman drowns after kayak turns over on Buffalo Nation

Authorities were notified about 5 p.m. May 19 of a possible drowning in the upper district of the Buffalo National River near Carver, Arkansas. Judy K. Bailey, 69, of Topeka, Kansas, was floating in a one-person kayak that overturned after striking a ... Read more

Learning for Justice helps connect “Brown” decision to e

Seventy years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The 1954 decision struck down the notion of “separate but equal” within public education. It declared that school segregation violated the 14t ... Read more

Today In History: SCOTUS Rules On Brown v. Board Of Education

Published May 17, 2024 05:51PM

Portrait of nine-year-old African-American student Linda Brown as she poses outside Sumner Elementary School, Topkea, Kansas, 1953. When her enrollment in the racially segregated school was blocked, her family initia...

Portrait of nine-year-old African-American student Linda Brown as she poses outside Sumner Elementary School, Topkea, Kansas, 1953. When her enrollment in the racially segregated school was blocked, her family initiated the landmark Civil Rights lawsuit 'Brown V. Board of Education,' that led to the beginning of int ... 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

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

70 years after Brown v. Board, former students remembers Top

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 schoo ... Read more

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