Memorials
The following are named after Charles Sumner:
- Charles Sumner Elementary School in Roslindale, Massachusetts;
- Charles Sumner School and museum in Washington, DC;
- Sumner Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, now Peace-Sumner Headstart Preschool;
- Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, now closed, a school that played a key role in the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education and is on the National Register of Historic Places;
- Sumner Academy of Arts & Science in Kansas City, Kansas;
- Charles Sumner House, Sumner's home in Boston;
- Sumner County, Kansas;
- Sumner, Iowa;
- Sumner, Nebraska;
- Sumner, Washington;
- Sumner, Oregon;
- SS Charles Sumner, a World War II Liberty cargo ship.
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