Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. A report from the Topeka Public Schools Office of Planning and Evaluation that revises and updates the long-term plan for facilities improvements from 1976-1977.
A letter from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Chaplain Wynn thanking him for his support of his article in the Christian Newspaper article in The Christian Century and offering condolences for what happened to burning of the original Chapel Building.
Tommie E. Price was an artist from Tulsa, OK. Lost For A Name shows white and black abstract shapes and forms with thinly drawn lines. They are layered to create contrast, variety, and movement for the viewer to experience.
Henry Wilmer Bannarn was a Harlem Renaissance sculptor and artist who worked in pastel and free-form sketching. Louisiana Nocturne depicts the nightlife of a rural town in Louisiana. The piece shows three couples around a two-story building marked Tavern Bar. The bar is between two buildings, and a person is on both porches.
This is a Luba sculpture from the Democratic Republic of Congo of a pregnant woman holding her stomach. The Luba are a matriarchal society and often create art centered around women, placing emphasis on their importance in their society. Some suggest that these figures are used to promote fertility.
Lucille Shepherd moved to the Farish Street District in 1955 at the age of 40. She shares recollections of her younger days in the district. She then talks about the deterioration of both buildings and the Black business sector in the district. She also discusses the improvements she'd like to see made.
Blueitt’s senior notebook includes her written philosophy of art, photographs of the artist’s works and her process, and a copy of her senior exhibition brochure. As a part of the Texas Southern art curriculum under Dr. John T. Biggers and Professor Carroll Harris Simms, students would create these notebooks to explain their artistry and showcase the works they created as students.
Ludie Neal began working for Head Start in 1965 with the position of teacher, eventually moving to resource teacher in 1970. She talks about her role as a resource teacher, making daily and weekly lesson plans for the 25 students she taught. She also discusses the origins of Head Start in her community.
Leo Twiggs was an artist and art professor from St. Stephen, SC. Lullaby depicts a mother singing to her child in a rocking chair. The abstracted background shows farmland as the sun sets just beyond a barn.
A multi-colored button with a photo of Lumumba Shakur. He was the first husband of Afeni Shakur and the two worked with the Black Panther Party in Harlem, New York, helping Black tenants organize rent strikes for adequate housing. In 1969, they were charged with conspiracy to bomb police buildings along with 19 others, known as the Panther 21.
Renee Stout is an artist and sculptor from Junction City, KS. Lunch at the Bush White House is a conceptual gothic painting that explores the intersection of Stout's critique of the Bush administration and numerology from an atmospheric perspective. Above a plantation-like landscape, Stout depicts a heart impaled by an ornate fork.
Mabel E. Howard was born in the Farish Street District in 1911 and worked at several businesses in the district. She talks about her time living in the district, the schools she attended, and being baptized at Christ Temple Church, and her favorite places to eat in the district. The transcript is edited with handwritten and typed notes.
Frederick D. Jones, Jr. is a twentieth-century artist from Chicago, Ill. Madonna Moderne depicts surrealist vignettes of a Black Madonna and child. The piece shows a veiled mother holding an injured baby and the same pair at a gravesite in a war-torn landscape. Jones also includes symbols of purity, humanity, war, and mortality.
A hand-carved, wooden African Makonde Shetani sculpture likely originating from the Makonde people in Tanzania, northern Mozambique, or Kenya. The Shetani are East African Islamic spirits who are depicted in varying forms, mostly abstract and distorted, and seen as malevolent beings. The word, “shetani” itself is Swahili for “little devil.”
Armstead Mills' painting shows a woman holding a bucket and striding through a field of flowers, with a small dog at her ankles. Malindy, wearing a dress and carrying a bucket, is portrayed tenderly and beautifully in this colorful nature scene. Mills' brother, Edward, also attended Texas Southern as an art student.
Patricia C. Walker was an artist from Worcester, MA. Man is a surrealist drawing that uses gothic symbols, such as the cross, crow on the tombstone, skull, and older man, to signify human mortality. It also uses Christian iconography, such as Adam and the Snake.
Criner’s print shows an older man wearing a hat and holding a chicken. This print is a black-and-white version of Criner’s piece “Mr. Alvin White, Man With Chicken.” Criner learned printmaking firsthand from Dr. John Biggers and was the longtime artist-in-residence at Houston’s Museum of Printing History.
This terracotta was created by an unknown Texas Southern art student. The form suggests a surreal male and female pair warmly embracing each other. The artist employs negative space uniquely in this sculpture; additional gendered embellishments can be seen within the open heads. These exterior decorations were required by Professor Carroll Harris Simms.
This maquette shows a human-like couple with enlarged heads and hands. The artist suggests their intimacy by joining their lower bodies together. The full-scale sculpture features finer details, such as modified head shapes, embellishments, and greater use of negative space.
Alvin Smith was an artist from Brooklyn, NY. Man Fleeing from Himself depicts an abstract figure running within a centered circle. Smith creates the figure through the white space left by black pencil strokes.
This piece by Bennie Settles shows a man wearing a cowboy hat, looking out onto a mostly empty field with two horses grazing. Settles' works in the permanent collection frequently showcase his style of using rounded shapes and gradients to depict his subjects' muscles and deep care for portraying Black hair.
Thomas’s painting shows a barefooted man, looking upon a village and a herd of sheep from a distance. The movement of wind is depicted through his garments swaying around his body. Thomas has a particular way of creating movement in his paintings, especially in the clothing and scenery in his artworks.
Frederick C. Flemister was an artist from Jackson, GA. Man with Brush is a mannerist self-portrait depicting him in front of an arched window at an empty canvas. Outside of the window is a landscape scene featuring a lake, rolling hillsides, and mountains in the distance.
A multi-colored button with a picture of Nelson and Winnie Mandela. Nelson Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. After being imprisoned for 27 years due to his African Nationalist ideology, he was released in 1990 and led efforts to end apartheid. He was elected president in 1994 in the country's first fully democratic election.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Map of Auburn, Shawnee County, Kansas, showing school district Ed. 151.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The map shows the city of Silver Lake, Kansas in Shawnee County as it stood in 1937.
