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As other stations in Topeka and Kansas City had taken the major network affiliations, KJAY was an independent station, coming up with its own programs. In the 1950s and early 1960s, KJAY featured a full service format of middle of the road (MOR) music, along with personalities, sports, farm information and news.
The Kansas law permitting segregated schools allowed them only "below the high school level". [67] Soon after the district court decision, election outcomes and the political climate in Topeka changed. The Board of Education of Topeka began to end segregation in the Topeka elementary schools in August 1953, integrating two attendance districts.
The 1951 flood in Kansas began in May with the flood of the Big Creek, (a tributary of the Smoky Hill River) in Hays after 11 inches (280 mm) of rain in two hours. The creek overflowed, flooding Hays (the location of Fort Hays State University) to a depth of 4 feet (1.2 m) in most locations inhabited by the students on campus, necessitating a midnight evacuation of the barracks by families on ...
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, that was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps. It is widely considered a hate group , [ nb 1 ] and is known for its public protests against gay people and for its usage of the phrases "God hates fags " and "Thank God for dead soldiers".
The Topeka State Hospital (formerly the Topeka Insane Asylum) was a publicly funded institution for the care and treatment of the mentally ill in Topeka, Kansas, in operation from 1872 to 1997. Located at 2700 W 6th Street, the hospital opened in 1879, after the Osawatomie State Hospital , once thought to be sufficient, became overcrowded with ...
Christ's Hospital was the first hospital in Topeka, founded in 1884. [3] The hospital was conceived and developed by the Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Vail (1812–1889), then the Episcopal bishop of the Kansas diocese. The bishop and his wife had already created Kansas's first training school for nurses, Christ's Hospital School of Nursing, in 1892. [4]
Media related to Newspapers of Kansas at Wikimedia Commons; Kansas Press Association - has a full list of daily and weekly newspapers that are KPA members. Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Kansas", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
The Kansas Center for the Book is a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.The Kansas Center for the Book affiliated with the national Center for the Book in 1987 and was hosted and headquartered at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library from then until 2005, when it moved to the State Library of Kansas.