Name/Title
History of Black Schools in MissouriEntry/Object ID
9999.BHF.156Scope and Content
History of Schools in Missouri.
This booklet listed the schools where the black children attended and the stories of when each school was started, where it was located and when it ended.
There are glossy photos of students at Horace Mann School 1967. There is also a photo copy of Horace Mann School students, 1967.
There is a photocopy of students in 2nd grade at Douglas
School 1955 donated by Emily Drake. Enclosed is a photo copy picture of the Douglas School Band, 1955.
In the folder is a program for an operetta Mississippi Melody presented by Horace Man school May 16 at 8 o'clock. D. J. Amos is the principal.
The Star Magazine from the Kansas City Star October , 2007 is enclosed in the folder. The magazine list an All-black Dalton Vocational High School . The magazine mentions Nathaniel Bruce, Bartlett School and Herscal Bartlett..
An article about educator Mary McLeod Bethune and her picture is in the folder.
In a photo copy group of outstanding educators is William Y. Washington.
A photo copy of a newspaper clipping with the headline of Would Close Lincoln School as New Step Toward Integration is in the folder. Newspaper clipping Negroes in 16 of 29 Public Schools article.
Newspaper clipping from St.. Joseph News-Press, Elwood's Lincoln School gives students good start in life. There is a picture of students. The school is located in the 400 block of North Ninth Street in Elwood, Kansas.
Newspaper clippings from St. Joseph News-Press May 16, 2004. The articles are about how St. Joseph led the way in school integration.
A program for Negro History Week Observance February 8, 1949 is in this folder.
There are three pages of information from 1860-1957 about the schools and enrollment.
There is a a second history of the black education and the schools handwritten by Donald F. Lentz Jr.
A news article by Kathryn Gamble, states in Elwood Kansas the races did not mix until high school. In social church and civic affairs they did not mix at all. She tells a story about how they wanted to learn to jitterbug and she taught them making the two groups seen like one.
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Black History, Black Schools, Douglas Elementary School, Horace Mann School, Lincoln School, Elwood, KansasRelationships
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Douglas Jacques AmosPerson or Organization
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Washington, William Y.Person or Organization
Mary McLeod BethunePerson or Organization
Emily Drake
