Medium: Sound
Date: May 14, 1992
Oral history interview with Vadeth Whiteside covering their role and impressions of the Brown v. Board case. Vadeth’s children attended Washington Elementary, one of Topeka’s four segregated schools for African…
Medium: Sound
Date: February 25, 1992
Oral history interview with Ruby Brown Walker covering their role and impressions of the Brown v. Board case. Ruby was born in 1911, and was the sibling of Oliver L.…
Medium: Sound
Date: Between 1990 and 1996
Oral history interview with Alvin and Lucinda Todd covering their role and impressions of the Brown v. Board case. Lucinda was born in 1903, she attended Kansas State Teachers College,…
Medium: Sound
Date: August 12, 1993
Oral history interview with Linda Brown Thompson covering their role and impressions of the Brown v. Board case. Linda was born in 1942 in Topeka, Kansas. Due to segregation laws,…
Medium: Sound
Date: October 25, 1991
Oral history interview with Joe Thompson covering their role and impressions of the Brown v. Board case. Thompson was born in 1906 and moved to Topeka in 1907. He earned…
Medium: Sound
Date: June 14, 1992
Oral history interview with siblings Frederick and Alberta Temple covering their role and impressions of the Brown v. Board case. Alberta Temple was born in 1913, earned a bachelors degree…
Medium: Sound
Date: May 20, 1996
Oral history interview with Judge Collins Seitz covering their role and impressions of the Brown v. Board case. Seitz was born in 1914, and attended the University of Delaware and…
Medium: Sound
Date: December 6, 2017
Frank Jacobs and Gary Ubert interviewed Ed Schwerdt (b: 11 May 1924 in Topeka, Kansas), son of George J. Schwerdt (b: 27 Sep 1897 in Kamenka, Saratov, Russia d: Jan…
Medium: Sound
Date: 2012
This is an audio recording of Henry Worrall’s original composition Sebastopol interpreted from the original manuscript and performed by guitarist Brian Baggett. Worrall initially published “Sebastopol” in the 1850s with…
Medium: Sound
Date: 2012
This is an audio recording of Henry Worrall’s original composition Carmencita interpreted from the original manuscript and performed by guitarist Brian Baggett. Worrall published his solo instrumental “Carmencita Series of…
Medium: Sound
Date: May 14, 1988
This is an oral interview with Lawrence Litwin, conducted by his family in Topeka, Kansas. The Litwin family owned and operated many businesses throughout Kansas, including businesses in Topeka, North…
Medium: Sound
Date: 2006
An oral interview with Alexander Braun conducted by Sara Keckeisen. He was born July 10, 1923 in Wernersdorf the Ukraine the son of Peter and Katharina (Braeul) Braun. After World…
Medium: Sound
Date: September 29, 2008
Click the thumbnail images below for different segments of an audio recording of an interview with former Kansas Governor Mike Hayden, who discusses his early life, military service in Vietnam,…
Medium: Sound
Date: March 10, 2008
An audio recording of an interview with John Carlin discussing his experience as governor of Kansas from January 8, 1979 to January 12, 1987, and his 1990 re-election bid. Bob…
Medium: Sound
Date: April 16, 2008
A fireman in Mullinsville, Kansas, ten miles west of Greensburg, in Kiowa County, Ron Clayton describes his experience as a first responder to the May 4, 2007, EF5 tornado that…
Medium: Sound
Date: April 3, 2008
Teresa Bachman of El Dorado, Kansas, gives a first hand account of the June 10, 1958, tornado in El Dorado. The tornado killed thirteen people and destroyed or damaged more…
Medium: Sound
Date: June 6, 2008
Marlysue Esping-Holmquist, wife of Thomas Holmquist, farms in Saline County, Kansas, near Smolan. She describes the history of their farm and the chance involved in its allotment in a flood…
Medium: Sound
Date: June 6, 2008
Thomas Holmquist describes a 2007 flood on his farm in Saline County, Kansas, near Smolan. A historian and educator, Holmquist is a lifelong resident of the Smoky Valley. He has…
Medium: Sound
Date: April 4, 2008
Topeka, Kansas, resident David H. Fisher, Jr. relates his experience during the June 8, 1966, tornado in Topeka.
Medium: Sound
Date: 1961
A selection from a sound recording of the theatrical production The Kansas Story. This play was produced by the Kansas Centennial Commission for the Kansas centennial celebration in 1961. It…
Medium: Sound
Date: October 5, 1992
Chris Hansen was an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, starting in 1973. In 1984, after the Brown v. Board desegregation case was reopened, Hansen served on the legal…
Medium: Sound
Date: May 14, 1992
Charles Baston was born in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, on April 24, 1917. He attended grade school and junior high school while still living in Lee’s Summit, and after junior high…
Medium: Sound
Date: July 15, 1994
Maurita (Burnett) Davis was born October 8, 1923, in Topeka, Kansas, to her mother Lena Jones Burnett and her father McKinley Burnett. She attended the segregated Monroe school for eight…
Medium: Sound
Date: October 30, 1991
Vivian Scales was born March 11, 1922, in Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas, where she attended an integrated grade school. After her family moved to Topeka she became a student at…
Medium: Sound
Date: October 12, 1994
Fred Rausch, Jr. grew up in East Topeka and attended Parkdale Elementary School, Lincoln Junior High, and East Topeka Junior High. Rausch was elected to the Topeka School Board in…
