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 includes streets, a stream, a city park, and a high school. School districts number 7 and 34 are marked on the map.
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 legend breaks down all roads by type and marks boundaries by county, corporate limit, and section line and includes markers for, dwellings, schools, and more.
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 legend marks all major roadways, boundaries, parks, waterways, and railroads. There is also a table with population numbers for cities and townships.
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 legend includes designations for each type of road in the county as well as road system designations.
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. Detailed maps on the left side show County Roads-Old and New in the northwest, northeast, and southeast sections of the county.
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 legend includes Boundary of the city of Topeka prior to annexation; platted areas annexed; areas excepted from annexation; and new city limits.
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 was created by J.C. Sargent Company, Inc. and shows residential areas in Topeka, Kansas, with markings by William Lamson marking several areas and streets.
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 Proposed Elementary Attendance Areas for Topeka Public Schools for 1974-1975. William Lamson colored in each area with pens and marked the schools.
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 Willard Shawnee County, Kansas, showing school district Ed. 114.
Oliver's painting depicts a group of men marching and playing drums and flutes, seemingly as part of a military expedition. The scene is believed to be drawn from the Battle of San Jacinto, the culminating battle of Texas's war against Mexico. The Black man may be Dick the Drummer, a free Black man who was part of the Texas army band.
Calvin Burnett was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, designer, and art teacher from Cambridge, MA. Marcus Garvey is a portrait of its namesake, a Jamaican political activist. Marcus Garvey was a renowned Black nationalist and Pan-Africanist.
The program for the celebration of Marcus Garvey's 104th birth anniversary. Garvey was founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). The program is labeled as "First International Seminar on the Afrikan World" with the theme of "Afrikan people of the world we are one."
In this 1929 correspondence, Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born radical civil rights leader, responded to Madeline Kibbs, a little girl who joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (the organization he founded). Garvey himself signed this rare, original letter.
Jewell Woodard Simon was an internationally acclaimed artist, teacher, and poet from Houston, TX. Margaret is a plaster bust of a Black woman. Like her other sculptures, Simon details the subject's features, including her nose, mouth, eyes, ears, and hair texture.
Margaret Jones, in 1967, began working to bring Head Start to Rankin County, Mississippi. Her career began when she was hired as a resource teacher when her daughter began attending Head Start at 3 years old. She eventually was promoted to Head Start Director of Education. She talks about the history of the program during her time there.
Margaret Rundles began working with the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1967 in Jackson, Mississippi, when the organization moved into the building she was working in. She talks about first starting work as a copy manager and discusses some of the publications that came through her department.
Margaret Walker was a poet best known for her role in the Chicago Black Renaissance, a Black literary movement. Her first poetry collection, For My People, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, making her the first Black woman to do so. 1981, she visited the Carnegia Center, a.k.a Carnegie Library, at the Meek-Eaton Black Archives.
Marian Williams, a gospel singer, provided Tuskegee Institute students with a gospel concert in relation to the Tuskegee Civic Association meeting in 1972.
Jewell Woodard Simon was an internationally acclaimed artist, teacher, and poet from Houston, TX. Marine Land Fantasy is an underwater landscape drawing of fish and plants. Simon uses a variety of colors that illustrate aquatic biodiversity. Her use of lines evokes the depth of open water.
Simms’ ceramic vessel is round and stout, with ridges and a node at the top, and has a maroon and gray glaze. Carroll Harris Simms worked alongside Dr. John T. Biggers to establish the Texas Southern University Art Department. Simms taught sculpture, ceramics, and jewelry-making classes.
Simms’ ceramic vessel is hollow, with an opening at the top, and has ridges and a dark maroon glaze. Carroll Harris Simms worked alongside Dr. John T. Biggers to establish the Texas Southern University Art Department. Simms taught sculpture, ceramics, and jewelry-making classes.
A button with a black and white photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Dr. King was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and remained its leader until his death. Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, which were led by Dr. King.
John Arterberry was an artist who worked in the art department at Langston University from Tallahassee, FL. Martyr shows a woman wearing a top with a cross and standing barefoot in a natural setting. The woman looks straight ahead, slightly smiling as a small fire sits behind her.
Mary L. Smith Kendricks moved to the Farish Street District in 1929 and worked at several businesses in the district. She recounts her experiences as a child during the Great Depression and then her experiences with entertainment in the district in the 1940s and the present state of the district. Transcript is heavily edited with handwritten notes.
A document outlining mass arrest procedures for situations requiring multiple detentions due to disorderly conduct. It includes a detainee arrest form to ensure proper documentation and consistent handling of suspects during large-scale events, emphasizing the need for efficiency and adherence to legal protocols from the Florida Statutes of 1967.
This document is an excerpt from a larger report. It focuses on the “alleged mass grave issue,” where investigators of the 1923 Rosewood Massacre tried to determine the location and names of unaccounted-for unidentified persons after the first week of the massacre, where burning, looting, and killing were at their peak.
