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2. Topeka Constitution - Wikipedia

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   The Topeka Constitutional Convention met from October 23 to November 11, 1855 in Topeka, Kansas Territory, in a building afterwards called Constitution Hall. It drafted the Topeka Constitution, which banned slavery in Kansas, though it would also have prevented free blacks from living in Kansas. The convention was organized by Free-Staters to ...

3. Topeka, Kansas - Wikipedia

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   Topeka was a bastion for the free-state movement during the problems in Kansas Territory between abolitionist and proslavery settlers (the latter of whom controlled the legal government based out of Lecompton). After southern forces barricaded Topeka in 1856, Topeka's leaders took actions to defend the free-state town from invasion.

4. List of people from Topeka, Kansas - Wikipedia

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   Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969), jazz saxophonist [39] Dave Hope (1949- ), bass guitarist, [40] former member of Kansas. Josh Kulick, former heavy metal drummer for Through The Eyes Of The Dead [citation needed] Katrina Leskanich (1960- ), singer ( Katrina and the Waves) [citation needed] Kerry Livgren (1949- ), founding member of the bands Kansas ...

5. Brown v. Board of Education - Wikipedia

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   Kentucky (1908) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's 1896 ...

6. Shawnee County, Kansas - Wikipedia

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   Shawnee County is located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States. Its county seat and most populous city is Topeka, the state capital. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 178,909, [2] making it the third-most populous county in Kansas. The county was one of the original 33 counties created by the first territorial ...

7. Menninger Foundation - Wikipedia

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   The Menninger Foundation was founded in 1919 by the Menninger family in Topeka, Kansas. The Menninger Foundation, known locally as Menninger's, consists of a clinic, a sanatorium, and a school of psychiatry, all of which bear the Menninger name. Menninger's consisted of a campus at 5800 S.W. 6th Avenue in Topeka, Kansas which included a pool as ...