Hidden Stories: The Webb Family
Description
The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v Board of Education desegregated schools across the country in 1954. But did you know that a Kansas Supreme Court case did the same in Johnson County, five years earlier? In 1948, the Webb Family sued to have their children attend a brand new school built in the South Park school district with taxpayer bonds but limited to attendance by white children. The family’s struggle for civil rights and equal educational opportunities for their children, the origins of the county’s first NAACP chapter, and the work of community advocates combine in the exhibit.
Offered At
Johnson County Museum
The Johnson County Museum offers innovative, engaging exhibitions and programs that inspire learners of all ages to discover a sense of place and spark excitement about history at two sites: Lanesfield Historic Site in Edgerton, Kansas, and the main museum in the Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center in Overland Park.
The Museum offers long-term and changing exhibits, the children’s history experience KidScape, field trips, home school, youth and scout programs, summer camps, lectures, special events, birthday party packages, event spaces and a wide variety of online research tools. The museum’s historic collections include more than one million photographs, 20,000 3-D artifacts, and 300 cubic feet of archival material. In 2018, the Johnson County Museum served 70,000 visitors onsite and nearly 100,000 people through online resources.
Details
Subjects
History, African American History
Capacity
100 students, 1 chap. per 100 stu.
Duration
30 min.
Activity
Digital Resource
Grades
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Adult