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This is a photograph of the mothers of kindergarten students in a meeting at the Sheldon Kindergarten in Topeka, Kansas. In 1893, Charles Monroe Sheldon, pastor of Topeka's Central Congregational Church, worked with Topeka's "Tennessee Town" community to organize the first African American kindergarten west of the Mississippi River.
Date: Between 1893 and 1899
Item Number: 2231
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.76 TTK *10
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2231
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Congregational
Date - 1890s
Education - Preschool or Early Childhood
Education - Primary - Activities - Parent Teacher Organizations
Education - Segregation and desegregation
Home and Family - Activities
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - African Americans - Discrimination
People - Notable Kansans - Sheldon, Charles Monroe, 1857-1946
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Photographs
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/2231
