---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410iiii–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410iiii–2"
heading: "Establishment of the Civil Rights in Education: Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410iiii-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–GGG — Brown V. Board of Education National Historical Park"
---

# §410iiii–2. Establishment of the Civil Rights in Education: Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

- (a) **In general—** There is hereby established as a [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410iii–2.md?p=3) System the Brown v. Board of Education National [Historical Park](/usc/16/410iiii.md?p=2) in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Kansas.
- (b) **Description—** The [historical park](/usc/16/410iiii.md?p=2) shall consist of the Monroe Elementary School site in the city of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, as generally depicted on a [map](/usc/16/410iii–2.md?p=2) entitled “Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site,” numbered Appendix A and dated June 1992. Such [map](/usc/16/410iii–2.md?p=2) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National [Park](/usc/16/410iii–2.md?p=3) Service.
- (c) **Boundary adjustment—**
  - (1) **Additions—** In [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the land described in [subsection (b)](#b), the [historical park](/usc/16/410iiii.md?p=2) shall include the land and interests in land, as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/410iii–2.md?p=2) entitled “Brown v. Board of Education National [Historical Park](/usc/16/410iiii.md?p=2) Boundary [Additions](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) and [Affiliated Areas](/usc/16/410iiii.md?p=1)”, numbered 462/178,449, and dated February 2022, and more particularly described as—
    - (A) the Summerton High School site in Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina;
    - (B) the former Scott’s Branch High School site in Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina; and
    - (C) approximately 1 acre of land adjacent to Monroe Elementary School in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.
  - (2) **Map—** The [map](/usc/16/410iii–2.md?p=2) described in [paragraph (1)](#c-1) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National [Park](/usc/16/410iii–2.md?p=3) Service.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–525, title I, § 103, Oct. 26, 1992, 106 Stat. 3439; Pub. L. 117–123, §§ 2(c)(2)–(4), 3(e), May 12, 2022, 136 Stat. 1196, 1198.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–123, § 2(c)(3), substituted “Historical Park” for “Historic Site” in section catchline.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–123, § 2(c)(2), substituted “National Historical Park” for “National Historic Site”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–123, § 2(c)(4), substituted “historical park” for “historic site”.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 117–123, § 3(e), added subsec. (c).