Barbershop singers in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: Between 1980 and 1985
These two photographs show barbershop singers serenading a customer in an onstage performance. The barbershop singers are young boys.

First and second grade students at Sumner Grade School in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: April 13, 1950
This is a photograph showing first and second grade students at Sumner Grade School in Topeka, Kansas. The teacher is Bernice Avery.

First grade at Randolph School in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: May 08, 1946
This is a photograph showing first grade students and their teacher Louise Walter at Randolph School in Topeka, Kansas.

First grade class at State Street School, Topeka
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: January 27, 1955-January 28, 1955
This photograph shows the first grade class at State Street Elementary School, taught by Miss Hunt. It was taken shortly after Topeka elementary schools were racially integrated in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Prior to this decision, which made segregated schools unconstitutional, State Street had been a school for white children only.

First grade students at Sumner Grade School in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: January 26, 1955
This is a photograph showing first grade students at Sumner Grade School in Topeka, Kansas. The teacher is Miss Andre and the principal is Richard Harder.

Fourth grade students and teacher at Lowman Hill School in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: March 20, 1951
This is a photograph showing a fourth grade class at Lowman Hill School located at 1100 Mulvane in Topeka, Kansas. The teacher is Mrs. Nelda Robrahan.

Gage School, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: April 06, 1950
This black and white photograph shows the fourth and fifth grade class of Miss Ethel Nelson at Gage School in Topeka, Kansas.

Girl scouts in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: February 09, 1950
Two photographs showing Girl Scouts, Troop No. 102, at Randolph Elementary School. The troop leaders are Mrs. M. R. Howard and Mrs. Charles Martin.

Quincy School Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: February 9-10, 1960
This black and white photograph shows Mrs. Irma Barry's first grade class at Quincy school in Topeka, Kansas. At the back of the classroom, Valentine decorations are arranged on the bulletin board. A caption with students' names is provided in the lower portion of the image along with the date the photo was taken and the name of the school's principal Mr. Robert H. Loomis.

Randolph Grade School, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: Possibly 1950s
An exterior view of Randolph Grade School, 1400 SW Randolph Avenue, Topeka, Kansas.

Randolph School, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: February 25, 1949
This black and white photograph shows the fifth grade class of Mr. Kenneth R. Timken at Randolph School in Topeka, Kansas.

Randolph elementary school in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: Between 1955 and 1959
This is a color photograph showing children playing baseball at Randolph Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas.

Second and third grade students at Sumner Grade School in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: December 17, 1952
This is a photograph showing second and third grade students at Sumner Grade School in Topeka, Kansas. The teacher was Mabel Lynch and the principal was Otto A. Bodenhausen.

Second grade class, Sumner School, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: January 26, 1955
A photograph of a second grade class, taught by Miss Hadorn, at Sumner School, Topeka, Kansas.

Second grade students at Monroe School, Topeka
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: March 3, 1949
This photograph shows the second grade class of Monroe Elementary, with their teacher, Edna Vance, seated at the back of the classroom. In 1992 the Monroe School was designated a National Historic Landmark for its involvement in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka court case (1954), which determined that the racial segregation of schools was unconstitutional.

Students and teachers at Lowman Hill Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: March 23, 1948
These class photographs show students in kindergarten through sixth grade at Lowman Hill Elementary School located at 1100 Mulvane in Topeka, Kansas. The teachers are identified as the following: kindergarten, Miss Meda Howell and assistant Miss Dorothy Davidson; first grade, Mrs. Helen Brownfield; second grade, Miss Edith Ellenberger; third grade, Miss Engholm and guest teacher Miss Boman; fourth grade, Miss Lavon Lowe; fifth grade, Mrs. Frederica Beck; sixth grade, Miss Tasker and principal Mr. Bolton.

Sumner Grade School, Topeka
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: Between 1950 and 1969
Sumner Grade School was a segregated school for whites only that played a prominent role in the desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education. Oliver Brown, an African American and the lead plaintiff in this court case, believed that his daughter should be allowed to attend Sumner School, which was only four blocks from their house. Instead, due to her race, his daughter was required to attend the Monroe School for black children located across town. Sumner was one of eighteen schools for white children located in Topeka during the first half of the twentieth century. In 1987 this building was designated a National Historical Landmark and it is not longer in operation.

Sumner School, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: January 25, 1951
These two black and white photographs show a group of fifth grade students dressed in period clothing for the History Program taught by Miss Elizabeth Schnemayer at Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas.