The Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes recently awarded several Topeka-area students with prize money for their documentaries about historical figures whose impact haven’t received widespread recognition.
Avery Munns, taught by Lindsey Dowell at Wahburn Rural High School, won this year’s “Outstanding High School” project with her documentary, “Ex Parte Endo: A Journey Towawrd Justice for Japanese Americans,” about Mitsuye Endo, a woman who took her challenge of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II to the U.S. Supreme Court and ...