Beryl New, Author at

Independent Historian

Dr. Beryl New is Director of Certified Personnel and Equity with Topeka Public Schools in Topeka, Kansas. She is also the co-chair of her district’s Equity Council, which hosts community conversations and summits about how race impacts student success.

Katherine Carper Sawyer (1942- )

Katherine Carper Sawyer is one of the nearly-forgotten plaintiffs in the famous Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. While most attention was focused on Linda Brown’s central role in the most important school desegregation case in the nation’s history, in 1952 … Read MoreKatherine Carper Sawyer (1942- )

McKinley Langford Burnett (1897-1968)

McKinley Langford Burnett was a little-known but significant figure in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that theoretically desegregated public schools across the United States. Burnett was born in Oskaloosa, Kansas, a racially integrated small town, in 1897 to parents who … Read MoreMcKinley Langford Burnett (1897-1968)