Topeka High School (THS) is a public secondary school in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It serves students in grades 9 to 12, and is one of five high...
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elementary schools were segregated in Topeka, and Topeka High School had been fully integrated since its inception in 1871. Furthermore, Topeka High School was...
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The Topeka School is a 2019 novel by the American novelist and poet Ben Lerner about a high school debate champion from Topeka, Kansas in the 1990s. The...
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Bree Elrod (category Topeka High School alumni)
was directed by Alan Rickman. Elrod is from Topeka, Kansas. She is a 1996 graduate of Topeka High School, where she was homecoming queen. She is an NYU...
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NiJaree Canady (category Topeka High School alumni)
USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. Canady attended Topeka High School in Topeka, Kansas where she was a two-sport athlete, playing both basketball...
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Illinois Topeka, Indiana Topeka, Mississippi Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, in Topeka, Kansas Topeka High School, in Topeka, Kansas USS Topeka, one...
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Elizabeth Farnsworth (category Topeka High School alumni)
"Elizabeth Farnsworth: An Appreciation". Topeka Magazine. p. 13. Retrieved 22 May 2024. She graduated from Topeka High School in 1961... Farnsworth, Elizabeth...
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Brown v. Board of Education (redirect from Brown v. school board of Topeka, Kansas)
1951 when the public school system in Topeka, Kansas, refused to enroll local black resident Oliver Brown's daughter at the school closest to their home...
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school district operates the following schools: High schools Traditional high schools: Highland Park High School Topeka High School Topeka West High School...
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Donald Ray Howard (category Topeka High School alumni)
Howard and Mildred Norrean (née Mellinger) Howard. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1951. He graduated from Washburn University, then served in the...
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Teven Jenkins (category Topeka High School alumni)
the 2021 NFL draft. Jenkins was born and grew up in Topeka, Kansas, and attended Topeka High School, where he played baseball, basketball and football...
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Charles Curtis (category Topeka High School alumni)
he returned to the city of Topeka. There, he lived with his paternal grandparents while he attended Topeka High School. Both grandmothers encouraged...
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Ben Lerner (category Topeka High School alumni)
" The New York Times Book Review called Lerner's 2019 novel The Topeka School "a high-water mark in recent American fiction." Giles Harvey, in The New...
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Jayne Houdyshell (category Topeka High School alumni)
in Topeka, Kansas, she is the youngest of four daughters born to Galen "Buzz" Houdyshell and Louella Taylor. She graduated from Topeka High School in...
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Nancy Kassebaum (category Topeka High School alumni)
Baker was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Kansas First Lady Theo (née Cobb) and Governor Alf Landon. She attended Topeka High School, and graduated...
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Coleman Hawkins (category Topeka High School alumni)
playing around eastern Kansas. He attended high school in Chicago, then in Topeka, Kansas, at Topeka High School. He later stated that he studied harmony...
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High School, Topeka, USD 437 Highland Park High School, Topeka, USD 501 Hope Street Academy, Topeka, USD 501 Topeka High School, Topeka, USD 501 Topeka West...
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Dave Hope (category Musicians from Topeka, Kansas)
band called "The Mulligans". In 2011, Hope was added to the West Topeka High School hall of fame. Hope is also the author of a commentary on the Gospel...
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Rex Stout (category Topeka High School alumni)
age thirteen he was the state spelling bee champion. Stout attended Topeka High School, Kansas, and the University of Kansas, Lawrence. His sister, Ruth...
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Charles W. Ryder (category Topeka High School alumni)
both World War I and World War II. Born in Topeka, Kansas in mid-January 1892 and was a Topeka High School graduate. In 1911 he entered the United States...
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Aaron Douglas (artist) (category Topeka High School alumni)
attended Topeka High School, during which he worked for Skinner's Nursery and Union Pacific material yard, and graduated in 1917. After high school, Douglas...
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Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park (redirect from Monroe Elementary School (Topeka, Kanas))
consists of Monroe Elementary School, one of the four segregated elementary schools for African American children in Topeka, and the adjacent grounds. It...
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Hayden Catholic High School is in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Athletic teams...
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Bradbury Thompson (category Topeka High School alumni)
Bradbury Thompson was born on March 25, 1911, in Topeka, Kansas, and attended Topeka High School. He attended Washburn College, where he was a member...
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Fred Slaughter (category Topeka High School alumni)
Basketball Association (NBA). Slaughter grew up in Topeka, Kansas. He attended Topeka High School, where he was the leading scorer on their basketball...
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Dean Smith (category Topeka High School alumni)
in Kansas tournament history. While at Emporia High School for two years and then at Topeka High School, Smith lettered in basketball all four years and...
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The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in...
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architect in practice in Topeka, Kansas from 1933 until his retirement in 1956. Griest's architectural work included Topeka's high school (1931), city hall (1940)...
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Rich Davis (category Topeka High School alumni)
peacefully at home. Davis, born in Joplin, Missouri, graduated from Topeka High School in 1944, and served a year and a half in the army. After World War...
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begins. 1870 Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library established. Population: 5,790. 1871 - Topeka High School established. 1872 - Topeka State Hospital...
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