Editing Brown v. Board of Education (section)

==''Brown III''==
In 1978, Topeka attorneys Richard Jones, Joseph Johnson and Charles Scott Jr. (son of the original ''Brown'' team member), with assistance from the [[American Civil Liberties Union]], persuaded Linda Brown Smith—who now had her own children in Topeka schools—to be a plaintiff in reopening ''Brown''. They were concerned that the Topeka Public Schools' policy of "open enrollment" had led to and would lead to further segregation. They also believed that with a choice of open enrollment, white parents would shift their children to "preferred" schools that would create both predominantly African-American and predominantly European-American schools within the district. The district court reopened the ''Brown'' case after a 25-year hiatus, but denied the plaintiffs' request finding the schools "unitary". In 1989, a three-judge panel of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit|Tenth Circuit]] on a 2–1 vote found that the vestiges of segregation remained with respect to student and staff assignment.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Brown v. Board of Education |vol=892 |reporter=F.2d |opinion=851 |court=10th Cir. |date=1989 |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/892/851/72610/ |access-date=2018-05-15 }}</ref> In 1993, the Supreme Court denied the appellant School District's request for ''[[certiorari]]'' and returned the case to District Court Judge Richard Rodgers for implementation of the Tenth Circuit's mandate.

After a 1994 plan was approved and a bond issue passed, additional elementary magnet schools were opened and district attendance plans redrawn, which resulted in the Topeka schools meeting court standards of racial balance by 1998. Unified status was eventually granted to [[Topeka Unified School District No. 501]] on July 27, 1999.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Brown v. Unified School Dist. No. 501 |vol=56 |reporter=F. Supp. 2d |opinion=1212 |court=D. Kan. |date=1999 |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/56/1212/2449313/ |access-date=2018-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516015146/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/56/1212/2449313/ |url-status=live }}</ref> One of the new [[magnet schools]] is named after the Scott family attorneys for their role in the ''Brown'' case and civil rights.<ref>[https://www2.topeka.k12.ks.us/scott/history.htm ''Topeka Public Schools Desegregation History: "The Naming of Scott Computer Technology Magnet"''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001021319/https://www2.topeka.k12.ks.us/scott/history.htm |date=October 1, 2007 }}</ref>