IOWA and KANSAS

I have always relied on maps. Paper maps with pretty little colored lines indicating roads and highways. Being that my rental car came with a navigation device, I decided to use it. Today it instructed me to drive into the Missouri River. While I am certainly not the brightest bulb, I did have sense enough not to do it. I think I will stick with my old fashioned paper maps!

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My car is the little yellow triangle floating in the Missouri River. SERGEANT FLOYD MONUMENT
Sioux City, Iowa

Charles Floyd (1782 – August 20, 1804) was a United States explorer in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. While exploring the Louisiana Purchase with Lewis and Clark, he took ill at the end of July 1804. A funeral was held and Floyd was buried on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River in Sioux City, Iowa. The expedition named the location Floyd's Bluff in his honor. The Sergeant Floyd Monument was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1960.

This is a beautiful memorial and the final resting place

for Sergeant Floyd. It is the spot where he died. TOPEKA, KANSAS

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) is one of the most pivotal opinions ever rendered. This landmark decision highlights the U.S. Supreme Court’s role in affecting changes in national and social policy. The case is about a little girl whose parents sued so that she could attend an all-white school in her neighborhood. This National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas, is an old school building that is now owned by the National Park Service.

We conclude that in the field of public education

the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

~~From the opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren in

the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.