Mission Statement for the Brown Mural Project

To facilitate the solicitation, collection and allocation of private funds received in the efforts of fulfilling the legislative requirements of Senate Bill 54, signed by Kansas's Governor Mark Parkinson on May 17, 2010 (fifty six years after the 1954 United States Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education). Senate Bill 54 states: "No public funds shall be used to pay for any costs associated with the creating, maintaining and installing the mural developed under the section.
Kansas Senate Bill 54 calls for a mural to be painted in the Kansas state capitol building. The Brown Mural Project will memorialize Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka by capturing its effects on Kansas, the United States, and the international community.