117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 270 

AN ACT 

To amend the Act entitled ‘‘Act to provide for the establishment of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in the State of Kansas, and for other purposes’’ to provide for inclusion of additional related sites 

in the National Park System, and for other purposes. 
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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Brown v. Board of 

5 Education National Historical Park Expansion and Re6 designation Act’’. 

7 SEC. 2. REDESIGNATION OF THE BROWN V. BOARD OF EDU8 CATION NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Brown v. Board of Education 

10 National Historic Site established by section 103(a) of 

11 Public Law 102–525 (106 Stat. 3439) shall be known and 

12 designated as the ‘‘Brown v. Board of Education National 

13 Historical Park’’. 

14 (b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in any law, regula15 tion, document, record, map, or other paper of the United 

16 States to the Brown v. Board of Education National His17 toric Site shall be considered to be a reference to the 

18 ‘‘Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park’’. 

19 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Title I of Public 

20 Law 102–525 (106 Stat. 3438) is amended— 

21 (1) in the title heading, by striking ‘‘HIS22 TORIC SITE’’ and inserting ‘‘HISTORICAL 

23 PARK’’; 
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1 (2) in sections 101(2) and 103(a), by striking 

2 ‘‘National Historic Site’’ each place it appears and 

3 inserting ‘‘National Historical Park’’; 

4 (3) in the section heading for each of sections 

5 103 and 105, by striking ‘‘HISTORIC SITE’’ each 

6 place it appears and inserting ‘‘HISTORICAL

7 PARK’’; and 

8 (4) by striking ‘‘historic site’’ each place it ap9 pears and inserting ‘‘historical park’’. 

10 SEC. 3. EXPANSION OF THE BROWN V. BOARD OF EDU11 CATION NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK AND 

12 ESTABLISHMENT OF AFFILIATED AREAS. 

13 (a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to 

14 honor the civil rights stories of struggle, perseverance, and 

15 activism in the pursuit of education equity. 

16 (b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 101 of Public Law 102– 

17 525 (106 Stat. 3438) (as amended by section 2(c)) is 

18 amended— 

19 (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 

20 striking ‘‘As used in this title—’’ and inserting ‘‘In 

21 this title:’’; 

22 (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘the term’’ 

23 and inserting the ‘‘The term’’; 
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1 (3) in each of paragraphs (1) and (2), by in2 serting a paragraph heading, the text of which is 

3 comprised of the term defined in that paragraph; 

4 (4) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 

5 paragraphs (3) and (2), respectively, and moving the 

6 paragraphs so as to appear in numerical order; and 

7 (5) by inserting before paragraph (2) (as so re8 designated) the following: 

9 ‘‘(1) AFFILIATED AREA.—The term ‘affiliated 

10 area’ means a site associated with a court case in11 cluded in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 

12 described in paragraph (8), (9), or (10) of section 

13 102(a) that is designated as an affiliated area of the 

14 National Park System by section 106(a).’’. 

15 (c) FINDINGS.—Section 102(a) of Public Law 102– 

16 525 (106 Stat. 3438) is amended— 

17 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 

18 paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively; 

19 (2) by inserting after paragraph (2), the fol20 lowing: 

21 ‘‘(3) The Brown case was joined by 4 other 

22 cases relating to school segregation pending before 

23 the Supreme Court (Briggs v. Elliott, filed in South 

24 Carolina, Davis v. County School Board of Prince 

25 Edward County, filed in Virginia, Gebhart v. Belton, 
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1 filed in Delaware, and Bolling v. Sharpe, filed in the 

2 District of Columbia) that were consolidated into the 

3 case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. 

4 ‘‘(4) A 1999 historic resources study examined 

5 the 5 cases included in Brown v. Board of Education 

6 of Topeka and found that each case— 

7 ‘‘(A) is nationally significant; and 

8 ‘‘(B) contributes unique stories to the case 

9 for educational equity.’’; and 

10 (3) by inserting after paragraph (6) (as so re11 designated), the following: 

12 ‘‘(7) With respect to the case of Briggs v. El13 liott— 

14 ‘‘(A) Summerton High School in 

15 Summerton, South Carolina, the all-White 

16 school that refused to admit the plaintiffs in the 

17 case— 

18 ‘‘(i) has been listed on the National 

19 Register of Historic Places in recognition 

20 of the national significance of the school; 

21 and 

22 ‘‘(ii) is used as administrative offices 

23 for Clarendon School District 1; and 

24 ‘‘(B) the former Scott’s Branch High 

25 School, an ‘equalization school’ in Summerton, 
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1 South Carolina constructed for African-Amer2 ican students in 1951 to provide facilities com3 parable to those of White students, is now the 

4 Community Resource Center owned by 

5 Clarendon School District 1. 

6 ‘‘(8) Robert Russa Moton High School, the all7 Black school in Farmville, Virginia, which was the 

8 location of a student-led strike leading to Davis v. 

9 County School Board of Prince Edward County— 

10 ‘‘(A) has been designated as a National 

11 Historic Landmark in recognition of the na12 tional significance of the school; and 

13 ‘‘(B) is now the Robert Russa Moton Mu14 seum, which is administered by the Moton Mu15 seum, Inc., and affiliated with Longwood Uni16 versity. 

17 ‘‘(9) With respect to the case of Belton v. 

18 Gebhart— 

19 ‘‘(A) Howard High School in Wilmington, 

20 Delaware, an all-Black school to which the 

21 plaintiffs in the case were forced to travel— 

22 ‘‘(i) has been designated as a National 

23 Historic Landmark in recognition of the 

24 national significance of the school; and 
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1 ‘‘(ii) is now the Howard High School 

2 of Technology, an active school adminis3 tered by the New Castle County Voca4 tional-Technical School District; 

5 ‘‘(B) the all-White Claymont High School, 

6 which denied admission to the plaintiffs, is now 

7 the Claymont Community Center administered 

8 by the Brandywine Community Resource Coun9 cil, Inc.; and 

10 ‘‘(C) the Hockessin School #107C 

11 (Hockessin Colored School)— 

12 ‘‘(i) is the all-Black school in 

13 Hockessin, Delaware, that 1 of the plain14 tiffs in the case was required to attend 

15 with no public transportation provided; and 

16 ‘‘(ii) is now used as a community fa17 cility by Friends of Hockessin Colored 

18 School #107, Inc. 

19 ‘‘(10) John Philip Sousa Junior High School in 

20 the District of Columbia, the all-White school that 

21 refused to admit plaintiffs in Bolling v. Sharpe— 

22 ‘‘(A) has been designated as a National 

23 Historic Landmark in recognition of the na24 tional significance of the school; 
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1 ‘‘(B) is now known as the ‘John Philip 

2 Sousa Middle School’; and 

3 ‘‘(C) is owned by the District of Columbia 

4 Department of General Services and adminis5 tered by the District of Columbia Public 

6 Schools.’’. 

7 (d) PURPOSES.—Section 102(b)(3) of Public Law 

8 102–525 (106 Stat. 3438) is amended— 

9 (1) by inserting ‘‘, protection,’’ after ‘‘preserva10 tion’’; 

11 (2) by striking ‘‘the city of Topeka’’ and insert12 ing ‘‘Topeka, Kansas, Summerton, South Carolina, 

13 Farmville, Virginia, Wilmington, Claymont, and 

14 Hockessin, Delaware, and the District of Columbia’’; 

15 and 

16 (3) by inserting ‘‘and the context of Brown v. 

17 Board of Education’’ after ‘‘civil rights movement’’. 

18 (e) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.—Section 103 of Public 

19 Law 102–525 (106 Stat. 3439) is amended by adding at 

20 the end the following: 

21 ‘‘(c) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.— 

22 ‘‘(1) ADDITIONS.—In addition to the land de23 scribed in subsection (b), the historical park shall in24 clude the land and interests in land, as generally de25 picted on the map entitled ‘Brown v. Board of Edu-
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1 cation National Historical Park Boundary Additions 

2 and Affiliated Areas’, numbered 462/178,449, and 

3 dated February 2022, and more particularly de4 scribed as— 

5 ‘‘(A) the Summerton High School site in 

6 Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina; 

7 ‘‘(B) the former Scott’s Branch High 

8 School site in Summerton, Clarendon County, 

9 South Carolina; and 

10 ‘‘(C) approximately 1 acre of land adjacent 

11 to Monroe Elementary School in Topeka, Shaw12 nee County, Kansas. 

13 ‘‘(2) MAP.—The map described in paragraph 

14 (1) shall be on file and available for public inspec15 tion in the appropriate offices of the National Park 

16 Service.’’. 

17 (f) PROPERTY ACQUISITION.—Section 104 of Public 

18 Law 102–525 (106 Stat. 3439) is amended— 

19 (1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘section 

20 103(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (b) and (c) of 

21 section 103’’; 

22 (2) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘States 

23 of Kansas’’ and inserting ‘‘State of Kansas or South 

24 Carolina’’; and 

25 (3) in the proviso— 
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1 (A) by striking ‘‘: Provided, however, That 

2 the’’ and inserting ‘‘. The’’; and 

3 (B) by inserting ‘‘or by condemnation of 

4 any land or interest in land within the bound5 aries of the historical park’’ after ‘‘without the 

6 consent of the owner’’. 

7 (g) GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN.—Section 105 of 

8 Public Law 102–525 (106 Stat. 3439) is amended by 

9 striking subsection (c) and inserting the following: 

10 ‘‘(c) AMENDMENT TO GENERAL MANAGEMENT

11 PLAN.—The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the 

12 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Sen13 ate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House 

14 of Representatives an amendment to the management plan 

15 for the historical park to include the portions of the histor16 ical park in Summerton, Clarendon County, South Caro17 lina.’’. 

18 (h) AFFILIATED AREAS.—Public Law 102–525 (106 

19 Stat. 3438) is amended— 

20 (1) by redesignating section 106 as section 107; 

21 and 

22 (2) by inserting after section 105 the following: 
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1 ‘‘SEC. 106. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BROWN V. BOARD OF 

2 EDUCATION AFFILIATED AREAS. 

3 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—On the date on which the Sec4 retary determines that an appropriate management entity 

5 has been identified for the applicable affiliated area, as 

6 generally depicted on the map described in section 

7 103(c)(1), the following shall be established as affiliated 

8 areas of the National Park System: 

9 ‘‘(1) The Robert Russa Moton Museum in 

10 Farmville, Virginia. 

11 ‘‘(2) The Delaware Brown v. Board of Edu12 cation Civil Rights Sites, to include— 

13 ‘‘(A) the former Howard High School in 

14 Wilmington, Delaware; 

15 ‘‘(B) Claymont High School in Claymont, 

16 Delaware; and 

17 ‘‘(C) Hockessin Colored School #107 in 

18 Hockessin, Delaware. 

19 ‘‘(3) The John Philip Sousa Middle School in 

20 the District of Columbia. 

21 ‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATION.—Each affiliated area shall be 

22 managed in a manner consistent with— 

23 ‘‘(1) this title; and 

24 ‘‘(2) the laws generally applicable to units of 

25 the National Park System. 

26 ‘‘(c) MANAGEMENT PLANS.— 
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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consulta2 tion with the management entity for the applicable 

3 affiliated area, shall develop a management plan for 

4 each affiliated area. 

5 ‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—A management plan 

6 under paragraph (1) shall— 

7 ‘‘(A) be prepared in consultation and co8 ordination with interested State, county, and 

9 local governments, management entities, organi10 zations, and interested members of the public 

11 associated with the affiliated area; 

12 ‘‘(B) identify, as appropriate, the roles and 

13 responsibilities of the National Park Service 

14 and the management entity in administering 

15 and interpreting the affiliated area in a manner 

16 that does not interfere with existing operations 

17 and continued use of existing facilities; and 

18 ‘‘(C) require the Secretary to coordinate 

19 the preparation and implementation of the 

20 management plan and interpretation of the af21 filiated area with the historical park. 

22 ‘‘(3) PUBLIC COMMENT.—The Secretary shall— 

23 ‘‘(A) hold not less than 1 public meeting in 

24 the general proximity of each affiliated area on 
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1 the proposed management plan, which shall in2 clude opportunities for public comment; and 

3 ‘‘(B)(i) publish the draft management plan 

4 on the internet; and 

5 ‘‘(ii) provide an opportunity for public 

6 comment on the draft management plan. 

7 ‘‘(4) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 3 years 

8 after the date on which funds are made available to 

9 carry out this section, the Secretary shall submit to 

10 the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 

11 the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources 

12 of the House of Representatives the management 

13 plan for each affiliated area developed under para14 graph (1). 

15 ‘‘(d) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Secretary 

16 may provide technical and financial assistance to, and 

17 enter into cooperative agreements with, the management 

18 entity for each affiliated area to provide financial assist19 ance for the marketing, marking, interpretation, and pres20 ervation of the applicable affiliated area. 

21 ‘‘(e) LAND USE.—Nothing in this section affects— 

22 ‘‘(1) land use rights of private property owners 

23 within or adjacent to an affiliated area, including ac24 tivities or uses on private land that can be seen or 

25 heard within an affiliated area; or 
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1 ‘‘(2) the authority of management entities to 

2 operate and administer the affiliated areas. 

3 ‘‘(f) LIMITED ROLE OF THE SECRETARY.— 

4 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this section au5 thorizes the Secretary— 

6 ‘‘(A) to acquire land in an affiliated area; 

7 or 

8 ‘‘(B) to assume financial responsibility for 

9 the operation, maintenance, or management of 

10 an affiliated area. 

11 ‘‘(2) OWNERSHIP.—Each affiliated area shall 

12 continue to be owned, operated, and managed by the 

13 applicable public or private owner of the land in the 

14 affiliated area.’’. 

Passed the Senate April 6, 2022. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 

117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 270 

AN ACT 

To amend the Act entitled ‘‘Act to provide for the 

tional Park System, and for other purposes. inclusion of additional related sites in the NaKansas, and for other purposes’’ to provide for cation National Historic Site in the State of establishment of the Brown v. Board of Edu-