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Meet Two Kansas Women Who Helped Integrate South Park Elementary School
Meet Two Kansas Women Who Helped Integrate South Park Elementary School
Johnson County Case Came Before Brown v. Board of Education
“Schools shouldn’t be for color. They should be for the children.”
These were the words of school teacher Corinthian Nutter during her legendary fight against the state of Kansas to integrate South Park Elementary School in Merriam.
Nutter linked arms with white Jewish housewife Esther Brown in the 1940s to give Black children, as Brown put it, “a fair shake.” Through threats and jeering, the unlikely pair left a lasting mark on Merriam.