The story of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka is interpreted inside Monroe Elementary School (NRHP), one of four black schools in Topeka at the time of the ruling. The Court's decision on May 17, 1954, legally ended segregation in public schools. The museum here offers visitors an experiential journey into the struggles of blacks before and during the Brown v. Board era, the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and today.