Traveling Exhibit - Panels

 

Brown v. Board of Education - In Pursuit of Freedom & Equality - Traveling Exhibit
   
Panel 7 - Those Who Cared: Teachers and the PTA

 "While we believe it is an outrage ... to carry on the caste school, yet if they must be forced upon us ... then we shall insist ... that our educated sons and daughters are placed in them as teachers...
Colored Citizen, Ft. Scott, Kansas, 1878.


Miss Emma E. Cooper (1889-1972) taught in Topeka schools for almost half a century.
Courtesy Sheppard-Cox Collection, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries.

Most Black children were taught by African American teachers who were often better educated than their white counterparts.


Members of the faculty, Lincoln Elementary School, Atchison, Kansas, 1952-53.
Courtesy Evelyn Harper Collection, University Kansas Libraries.


Faculty, Monroe School, Topeka, Kansas, 1929.
Courtesy Allabelle Napue Collection, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries.


Sumner High School Faculty, 1917.
Courtesy Sumner Alumni Association Collection, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries.

 
Miss Abbot's kindergarten class, Washington Elementary School, 1955.
Courtesy Joe Douglas Collection, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries.

PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATIONS
Parents and other members of the African American community organized to support their schools.


Kansas Congress of the Colored Parents and Teachers meeting, Leavenworth, 1952.
Loan from Mrs. Beatrice Johnson Collection, Courtesy Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries.


General Program of the Kansas Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers.
Courtesy Ethel Moore Collection, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries


Minutes Mothers League, Monroe School, Topeka, Kansas, 1907-1915.
Courtesy Sheppard-Cox Collection, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries.