Wells, Loni2010-05-192010-05-192010-05-19http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4181Loni Wells analyzes the effect of the historic 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Examining three cities affected by the ruling – Topeka, Manhattan, and Junction City – she shows that each place had a different reaction. She ties these responses to the historic differences in their African American populations and neighborhoods. Only Junction City had integrated elementary schools and a citywide distribution of black families, whereas Topeka and Manhattan had rigidly-defined and segregated neighborhoods. Newspaper reporting in all three places reflects these differing histories.African AmericanBrown v. BoardTopekaManhattanJunction CityText