William D. Lamson was an architect/planner and demographic analyst for court cases dealing with school desegregation, voting rights, housing discrimination, and judicial redistricting. The collection consists of case files and maps he used in court as an ACLU expert witness in the Brown III case, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992 for public schools in Topeka, Kansas.
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Jackson State University
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Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. In this memo, CLU Attorney Jon C. Dubin updates other Brown III Co-Counsel on the evidence discovery process and summarizes where the entire process currently stands.
Louis Nunez of the United States Commission on Civil Rights issues a memo requesting commissioners of other federal agencies to take action on the Kansas Advisory Committee's statement. He requests that other commissioners write letters to the Department of Justice in favor of making the Topeka School District comply with desegregation orders.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. A motion from the defense team requesting that the ten additional defendants listed in the motion be allowed to assist in answering plaintiff interrogatories.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. A motion of substitution from the defense team requesting that 3 people be removed as parties from the case because they are no longer members of the school board.
A paper by Yale Law School student Mary Dudziak representing the “current stage of my continuing research on the history of school segregation in Topeka Kansas.” She thanks the ACLU for research and travel funds. Handwritten notes from Lamson throughout the paper and attached sheets with handwritten notes from Lamson.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. In this position statement, the defense argues that certain requests for documents from the plaintiff team are “unduly burdensome” because of time constraints.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. This court order places limitations on some of the documents requested by the defense due to redundancy and personal information that is included in some records.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The report breaks down a study of all facilities, infrastructure, materials, and teaching resources for Topeka Public School for the history of the district.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. A report analyzing Black student achievement in Topeka, Kansas, schools from 1980-1986 that found the racial composition of schools had no effect on student learning.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The report encourages the U.S. Justice Department and United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct an investigation into Topeka Schools.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. A list of documents the plaintiff attorneys request to be produced for evidence by the defense team.
Report on a telephone survey conducted with 400 Topekans selected randomly from the phone directory, conducted by Central Surveys Inc. of Shenandoah, Iowa. In general, the respondents believed the schools were performing well, but they also recognized patterns of segregation with the schools.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Charts comparing percentages of minority staff assigned to schools with highest minority enrollment to schools with the lowest in Topeka Schools from 1973 to 1984.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Charts comparing percentages of minority and white enrollment to minority and white staff members in Topeka, Kansas, schools from the 1973 to 1984 school years.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Charts comparing percentages of minority students to minority staff members in Topeka, Kansas, schools from the 1973 to 1984 school years.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. A document defining the regulation and accreditation of Kansas public schools as relating to administration, courses of study, and instruction.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Four affidavits from Topeka School District defendants presenting arguments of why some documents requested by the plaintiff attorneys cannot be produced on time.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. This essay from an unnamed author examines thirteen court cases that predated the first Brown case taken on by the Kansas Supreme Court that dealt with segregation.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Analysis (handwritten notes and spreadsheets by William Lamson) of numbers and percentages of Black students in Topeka Public Schools from 1950-1983.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Spreadsheets calculating percentages of white students in Topeka Public Schools plus a handwritten page listing data sources, all by William Lamson.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas on the Brown III case that reverses a lower court’s ruling that the Topeka School District is unitary.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas Circuit Judge Stephanie Seymour’s opinion, ruling that Topeka school’s have not done enough to rectify segregation.
A newspaper article from The Topeka Capital Journal about opening arguments in the Topeka desegregation case. The opening day also saw the opening of testimony by expert witness for the plaintiffs William Lamson who used maps and charts to argue that the Topka School System continues to remain segregated.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. A 1946 newspaper article from the Topeka Daily Capital about the Topeka School Board's discussion of the ten year plan for the school district.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. This brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals argues that Former Kansas Governor John Carlin did not have the power to affect desegregation and should not be a defendant.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. List of analysis materials used by William Lamson in his expert testimony preparation for the Brown v. Topeka III litigation.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. An April 1976 report by Ted Clark that explains the facilities improvements for Topeka Public Schools that were prioritized and funded in 1975 and 1976.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Charts and spreadsheets analyzing the estimated capacities for student instruction for Topeka, Kansas, area schools for the 1980-1981 school year.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The map depicts the city of Topeka from 1951-1952 and William Lamson hand marked each grade school, junior high school, and high school on the map.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The map depicts the city of Topeka from 1952-1953 and William Lamson hand marked each grade school, junior high school, and high school on the map.
