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    new day, and a bright new future. All these colors Stephenson used represent simpler times of the southwest before the chaotic takeover of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway also known as AT&SF. According to Kansas Historical Society, the AT&SF Railway chartered in February of 1859. “At its largest, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway would own well over 13,000 miles, and the routes which made up its system would become some of the most heavily and strategically used throughout the West

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    water and hostile Native Americans made the trip dangerous, but William Becknell, “Father of the Santa Fe Trail,” left Missouri that year to arrive in Santa Fe a month-and-a-half later. After a large profit, Becknell continued to make trips, blazing the path that became known as the Santa Fe Trail. Soon, traders, visitors, and the military would regularly travel the route. Two paths developed on the Sante Fe trail, splitting at Fort Larned, KS after following the same path from Missouri to the Arkansas

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    CASE 17 THE GRAND CANYON RAILWAY One interesting feature of the southwestern United States is the area known as the "Four Comers." the only place in the United States where four slates meet at one point. Within the 130,000 square miles of the Colorado Plateau in this region lie many wonders of nature. The plateau contains eight national parks, twenty national monuments, as well as numerous other nationally designated areas and huge tracts of national forests. This wealth of natural features and

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    consists of several railroads projects, the first of which were the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, and later, the Northern Pacific, Santa Fe, Great Northern, Texas and Pacific, and Western Pacific projects would follow suite. All of were approved for construction shortly after the Civil War. Prior to the war there was some skepticism towards the railway system.

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    Route 66. One of the first roads of the U.S. highway network to be built, Route 66 ran for 2448 miles from Chicago, IL, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before finally ending in Santa Monica, CA. First commissioned on November 11, 1926, the road also became known as the Mother Road, Will Rogers Highway, and the Main Street of America. With the development of the Interstate highway system and, especially, I-40, Route 66 became less

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    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court 's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities

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    The 13th Amendment

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    system was established in the Nation of “freedom and equal opportunity” segregating everything from schools to bathrooms because of the color of your skin. After the Separate Car Act of 1890 passed in the State of Louisiana which required separate railway cars for blacks and whites a man of mixed race who was seven eighths of European decent and of one eighth African descent purchased a first class ticket, and upon taking his seat was once asked to move to the black only car, then was arrested for

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    One of the most recognizable and successful companies in the world is Disney. It currently has multiple theme parks, channels, shows, movies, widely known characters, and songs. Almost everywhere you go a bit of Disney is there in some way. But like many things, Disney was started with one man and a dream. Walt Disney is, obviously, the founder of The Walt Disney Company but that didn’t happen overnight. Before Mickey and Disneyland, Walt was an average guy like anyone else. He started out as a little

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    Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka For much of the ninety years preceding the Brown case, race relations in the U.S. had been dominated by racial segregation. This policy had been endorsed in 1896 by the United States Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that as long as the separate facilities for the separate races were "equal," segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment ("no State shall... deny to any person... the equal protection of the laws.") In the

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    otherwise. Separate Is Not Equal. In 1954 Linda Brown was attending an all-black school. As a schoolgirl, Brown became the center of a landmark United States civil rights case. Brown was in third grade at the time, and sought to enroll at Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas(wiki). “The day it all started her Father (Leon BrOwn) took her by the hand and walked 4 blocks down to Sumner Elementary School. Sumner was the closest elementary school to their home, but Linda Brown was not allowed to attend because of

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