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Portrait of Mamie Luella Williams, 1894-1986, an elementary school teacher and principal in Topeka, Kansas. In 1965 she was appointed to the Kansas Commission on the Status of Women, served as a delegate to the 1971 White House Conference on Aging, and was active on the Senior Citizens Advisory Council for the Republican Party for Kansas, 1974-1976. She received the Washburn University Distinguished Service Award in 1973, and an honorary doctorate in mathematics from Washburn in 1982. Williams Science and Fine Arts Elementary Magnet School at 1301 S.E. Monroe, Topeka, Kansas, was named in honor of Ms. Williams.
Date: Between 1905 and 1911
Item Number: 208790
Call Number: B Williams, Mamie L *13
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 208790
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Educators
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Teachers
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Education - Primary - Teachers
Education - Segregation and desegregation
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - African Americans
People - Notable Kansans - Williams, Mamie L., 1894-1986
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Photographs
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