In February 1969, more than 400 students at two high schools in Kansas City, Kansas, walked out of their classes to protest the lack of Black history courses.
The students were from all-Black Sumner High School — the only high school in Kansas to be legally segregated — and from Wyandotte High, a school with a significant minority population, about two miles away.
Looking back now, it’s easy to see how these students contributed to the warp and weft that is the fabric of America. Like hundreds of thousands of others during the Civil Rights Movement and at other inflection points in our nation’s history, these students were driven by a thirst for justice and equality…