KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Officials plan to disclose details this week about an audit into the finances of a foundation started by the daughter of the lead plaintiff in a famous school desegregation case.
Cheryl Brown Henderson was instrumental in the creation of Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka. She led it for six months last year before returning to an earlier job leading the foundation that is located in the same building. Recently, the foundation was asked to move.
A federal investigation found that Brown Henderson failed to limit her involvement with the foundation while she led the historic site. That involvement was seen as a conflict because the foundation gets most of its funding from the park service and employed her sister and boyfriend.