Leslie Tinnon Case: An Effort at Desegregation in the Exoduster Era, 1881

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Leslie Tinnon Case: An Effort at Desegregation in the "Exoduster" Era, 1881

Entry/Object ID

9999.BHF.207

Scope and Content

Leslie Tinnon Case: An Effort at Desegregation in the "Exoduster" Era, 1881. Andrew Kull a law professor at Emory University and author of The Color-Blind Constitution, Harvard University Press, 1992 writes about this case. On January 18, 1881 Judge Nelson T. Stephens of the 4th Judicial District issued an order directing Superintendent Wheeler to admit Leslie Tinnon to the regular public school on the grounds that the 14th Amendment deprived both the Kansas legislature and the local school board of the power to authrorise or maintain separate schools for black pupils. Two young black men graduated for Ottawa High School. Leslie Tinnon died in St. Joseph and was buried at City Cemetery, November 26, 1918. Also in this folder are several copied pictures from the town of Ottawa KS. This article was by Deborah Barker, Franklin County Historical Society, Ottawa KS.

Collection

Black Archives

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Slavery, School integration

Search Terms

Black History, Exodusters

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Maintenance

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Date

Jul 2, 2013

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Franklin County Historical Society

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Leslie Tinnon

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Andrew Kull

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Mary Ward Smith

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B. B. Wade

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John Hogan

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Elijah Tinnon

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Washburn Alfred Benson

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Wheeler, William

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Judge Nelson T. Stephens