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Kansas City Gems Week 3: Esther Brown’s Fight to Integrate Kansas Schools with Dan Margoies and Deborah Keating

Name: Kansas City Gems Week 3: Esther Brown’s Fight to Integrate Kansas Schools with Dan Margoies and Deborah Keating
Start: 2026-04-07T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-04-07T10:00:00-05:00

April 7 | 1:30 pm | In Person or Online – $10

KC Gems last 1-2 hours depending on the topic and presenter.

In 1949, Kansas City-born Esther Brown orchestrated a legal battle that led to the integration of a public school in what is now Merriam, Kansas. Learn about the direct throughline from that case to the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision five years later.

Dan Margolies – Retired Journalist and Attorney

Dr. Deborah Keating – PhD History, UMKC; Research Assistant