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Monday, February 22, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Black lawyers honored
Three Kansans are recognized for leadership
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
One of the attorneys who represented 20 black children in the 1954 landmark desegregation case, Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education, was honored at a Friday evening banquet at the University of Kansas.
Charles Scott Sr., a Topeka attorney, was one of three black Kansas attorneys given leadership awards by KU's Center for Black Leadership Development and Research.
“He's regarded as one of the best experts in civil rights,” said Jacob Gordon, research associate and associate director for African American and African-American studies.
Scott said, "I thought it was a tremendous honor. It was also a real surr
The 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled that separate-betul facilities for black and white schoolchildren were unconstitutional.
But Scott said there was still disproportionate enrollment of blacks and whites in Topeka schools. A lawsuit he called Brown III, originally filed in the 1970s, is now pending before a U.S. Court of Appeals. That suit alleged that the school board was not complying with the mandate of the 1954 decision, Scott said.
"The decision has become applicable to other areas in our society prohibiting separation on the basis of race." Scott said.
An exhibition of documents titled "African Americans in the Practice of Law", which honors the careers of noted black Kansas attorneys, also opened Friday night at Spencer Research Library.
Development and Research. The awards dinner, part of the continuing celebration of Black History Month, was given in conjunction with the exhibit, Gordon said.
"We want to use these awards to encourage good leaders," Gordon said.
Gordon is director of the black history research project, which began in 1986 to preserve historical materials about black Kansans.
Also honored at the dinner was Elmer C. Jackson, of Kansas City, Kan., a 1935 graduate of the KU School of Law, former president of the National Bar Association, and first black member of the Board of Regents.
Jackson has practiced law for 53 years.
"He is the oldest practicing black lawyer in Kansas," Gordon said.
The leadership awards were given by KU's Center for Black Leadership
Sherman A. Parks Sr. of Topeka was the third lawyer honored. He graduated from Washburn Law School in 1955. Parks was the first black to be appointed to an appellate judgeship in Kansas, Gordon said. He served on the bench for 10 years and retired in 1987.
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