During the early 1920s, there were some integrated schools in Topeka, especially in areas where Black schools were too overcrowded to take on more students. Some white parents pushed for segregation and separate but equal schools. The city was able to pass an $850,000 bond to both alleviate overcrowding and enforce complete segregation by building new schools. The Board of Education decided the 1928-1929 school year would be the last year for integrated public schools. Unfortunately, once the new all-Black schools were built, Black children were forced to leave the integrated schools they had previously attended, as these became all-white schools. George Wright sought to keep the Topeka Board of Education from interfering with his daughter Wilhemina’s attendance at Randolph school (a school for white children) and sued to prevent them from transferring her to the Buchanan school (a school for Black children). Wright appealed the case all the way to the Kansas Supreme Court. The Court stated that the Board could maintain separate but equal schools for the education of white and Black children. Wright argued that his family lived a few blocks from Randolph and twenty blocks from Buchanan. This distance required Wilhemina to cross numerous dangerous intersections. The Board countered by offering Wilhemina transportation to Buchanan.  The Court ruled that there was no complaint of one school being inferior to the other, so the Wright family’s demands were deemed unreasonable. [233 words]