As spring approaches, the weather is warmer, skies are sunnier and more people are planning speedy retreats. Below is a list of 10 family-friendly Kansas destinations: Kansas City Metro Kansas City Metro is a great spare of the moment vacation. Throw some overnight bags in the car and enjoy a stay…
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Opportunity to explore the buried past of Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site History Underground Image of Monroe Elementary School from 1927-1929 | Photo credit: https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/9338 People from all over visit the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic…
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The Kansas motto Ad Astra Per Aspera (to the stars through difficulties) aptly describes the trajectory Black Kansans have followed over centuries of oppression and hardship. As the Kansas Territory was being settled in the 1850s, a deeply unsettling era known as Bleeding Kansas began. Proslavery…
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Nothing feels very far in the past at these portals to another era. Engage all your senses as you see planes, a powwow, basketball’s founding documents and a subterranean world. 1. Trace the Fight for Rights Reflect on a milestone in the civil rights movement with a visit to a historic Topeka…
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Kansas links political, social, racial and cultural issues that continue to define and shape today’s…
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