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Cleveland Elementary School class, c. 1940s/1950s.
Mr. Russell Cartwright, Principal Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas.
Burnett School, # 62, early 1900s.
Early 1900s Douglas County, Kansas Ms. Lotta Watson, teacher.
Lowman Hill School in Topeka, KS, 1892.
Students in this First Grade Class reflect some of the racially integrated student bodies in Topeka’s elementary schools during the late 19th century.
Topeka High Ramblers and Cheerleaders, 1940s, Topeka High School, Topeka, Kansas.
Organized in 1935, the Topeka High Ramblers Basketball Team and Cheerleaders afforded African Americans an opportunity to participate in high school athletics. Most African American high school students were prohibited from participating in school…
Ms. Lois Abbott’s Kindergarten Class, 1955.
Washington School, Topeka, Kansas Established for African American students in 1904, Washington school supported the largest student body among the city’s four African American schools in 1954 and continued to do so for the remainder of the decade.…
Monroe School, Topeka, Kansas, 1927.
Designed by architect Thomas W. Williamson, this new Monroe School building opened in 1926. It included a grand auditorium. As the earliest African American school in Topeka, Kansas, Monroe first welcomed students in 1868. At one time, it was among…
Dunbar School Dedication Program, November 17, 1922, Salina, Kansas.
By 1920, when Salina became a first class city, the city’s school board voted to establish Dunbar School, an elementary school for the city’s African American students. It also served as a center of community activities for African Americans in…
Lincoln Star Yearbooks, 1948 and 1951.
Lincoln School was the elementary school assigned to all African American students residing in Atchison, Kansas.