The letter of termination to darle buchanan was written by the superintendent of schools in tipeka, kansas. Like a lot of cities and towns in the united states, particularly those in the south, Tepika had segregated public elementary schools. Black children went to a separate system of schools scattered around the city with their own black teachers and black principals. In the years after the second world war, the leading civil rights group of the day, the n a c p, decided to start challenging segregation. They found 13 black families and asked them to go down to their neighborhood white school and tryand enroll their children. One of the couples they ast was oliver and le