The old Monroe Elementary School, now (as of 2021) a national historic site in the Kansas capital city of Topeka, was an important player in the monumental Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case of 1954, in which the Court ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Linda Brown, a Black girl for whom the case is named, attended this segregated school. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2021.