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…
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…