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Topeka Was at The Center of Brown v. Board. Decades Later, Segregation of Another Sort Lingers

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where schools were at the center of the case that struck down segregated education. “I like broccoli. Do you like broccoli?” Marie Carter, a Black school library worker, asked broccoli-hating librarian Amy Gugelman, who […]

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