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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.
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: January 27, 1955-January 28, 1955
This image could be paired with a variety of sources that discuss the integration of Topeka schools, particular the oral history interview with Christina Jackson, whose children attended State Street.
KS:11th:3.1:Brown v. Board (2005)
Item Number: 211809
Call Number: Schrock, John Edward Coll. Box 16
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211809
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Education
Built Environment - Function - Education - School - Grammar School
Collections - Photograph - Schrock, John Edward
Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1945-1990 (Kansas_Benchmark 3) - Brown v. Board (Indicator 1) - Integrated schools
Date - 1950s - 1955
Education - Primary - Students
Education - Primary - Teachers
Education - Segregation and desegregation
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - African Americans
People - Children
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961 - Civil Rights Movement
Type of Material - Photographs
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