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This photograph shows a group of African American students and their teachers standing in front of the "first black school in Kansas," according to the handwritten caption on the back of the image. (This statement is incorrect.) The structure was located in Grasshopper Falls which is present day Valley Falls, Kansas.
Date: Between 1920s and 1930s
Item Number: 305088
Call Number: FK2.J2 V.76 *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 305088
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Education
Built Environment - Function - Education - School - Rural Country School
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - African Americans
People - Children
Places - Cities and towns - Grasshopper Falls
Places - Cities and towns - Valley Falls
Places - Counties - Jefferson
Type of Material - Photographs
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