Brown v. Board of Education StoryCorps - Donna Rae Pearson and son, Adrian Pearson
Channel: TopekaLibrary
Date: 2016-05-18

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Adrian talks with Donna Rae about what it was like growing up in a predominately white rural area and then moving and going to high school in Topeka.

Donna Rae Pearson interviewed her son, Adrian Pearson.  Adrian attended high school in Topeka and went on to play football at Baker University.  He plans to become a teacher and coach.

About the Project: 
To honor the changes in Topeka's schools over the past 60 years, thirty-six Topekans participated in a special StoryCorps national oral history project to document, preserve, and share their reflections, school experiences, and perspectives. Over three days, conversations were held about school experiences, perspectives, friendships, hardships and life in Topeka post-Brown.  

The interviews were recorded May 2014 in Topeka, Kansas.  Conversations are archived at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and locally at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library. 
The project is a collaboration among the Kansas Humanities Council, Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, and the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library. 

StoryCorps is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, tens of thousands of people have participated while millions listen to weekly StoryCorps broadcasts on the radio and at storycorps.org.