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Seeking to expand upon an 1879 law permitting school boards in cities of the first class with populations of over 15,000 to create a dual elementary school system, the state lawmakers were now considering granting the same discretionary powers to towns with populations as few as 2,000.
In 1879, the Topeka Colored Citizen found the black Monroe Street School so mismanaged “that many children are in it are just where they were 2-3 years ago” expressing the opinion that the children were purposely held back so as to forestall their entering the city’s integrated junior high schools.
Yet another reason the board trod carefully was that they had come to fully embrace the separate-but-equal doctrine established in the 1896 United States Supreme Court case Plessy v.
Rex Tod Hunter Stout (1903). Novelist; he created the mystery detective Nero Wolfe, and was a co-founder of the Vanguard Press. (dec.)
Topeka State Journal, September 24, 1908 and September 25, 1908; Topeka Plaindealer, September 24, 1908; Records of Minutes of the Board of Education, City of Topeka, October 5, 1908, Unified School District 501, Administration Building, Topeka, Kansas.
Doctor Karl A. Menninger (1910). Psychiatrist and author; co-founder and later head of the Menninger Clinic and Foundation. (dec.)
Doctor William C. Menninger (1917). Psychiatrist and educator; a co-founder of the Menninger Clinic and oversaw mental health programs for the armed forces during WWII. (dec.)
Minnie Stewart (1919). THS Math Instructor for 40 years. (dec.)
Topeka Plaindealer, September 3, 1920
In April 1921, the Topeka Board of Education ordered that the African American children at Potwin be sent to Buchanan school "to avoid some trouble that had occurred," Records of Minutes of the Board of Education, April 4, 1921.
For the Rich case see, Records of Minutes of the Board of Education, September 24, 1928 and October 1, 1928 and Topeka Plaindealer, September 28, 1928.
Between Reynolds case and 1928, only one integrated school, Potwin, was forcefully segregated.
Topeka Plaindealer, February 8, 1929
Bruce G. Woolpert (1937). Engineer and businessman; rose to become CEO of the Granite Rock Co. which won the Malcolm Baldridge Award.
Doctor Robert H. O’Neil (1938). Physician; served aboard United StatesS. Sabine and in naval hospitals, helped organize Cotton-O’Neil Clinic, PA, serving as Chairman of the Board.
Records of Minutes of the Board of Education, June 23, 1941 and July 11, 1941; Topeka Plaindealer, July 4, 1941.
Despite no longer being a member of the national organization, the local branch continued to hold elections, Raymond Reynolds to Roy Wilkins, September 2, 1941, Topeka Branch Office Files, NAACP Papers.
In an effort to stave off wholesale integration and save their jobs, African American teachers, as one critic charged, “packed” the still un-chartered 1941 Topeka NAACP elections to hold the incumbent president Scott “selfishly at the head of the branch for their own particular purposes.”
Doctor Richard E. Davis (1944). Physician, educator, and entrepreneur; he created the KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce.
Thomas F. “Swiftwater” Hahn (1944). Naval officer and archaeologist with National Park Service; he was a principal chief of the Delaware nation. (dec.)
Doctor Frank W. Hale, Jr. (1944). Educator and author; involved in furthering the education of black and minority students and is a college lecturer and consultant. (dec.)
Franklin Williams to Thurgood Marshall, September 9, 1948 and Glouster Current to Doctor Porter Davis, September 15, 1948, Kansas State Conference Files, Papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Microfilm Division, Kansas State Historical Society.
George Schrader (1949). Public administrator; he is the former city manager of Dallas, Texas.
Doctor W. Walter Menninger (1949). Psychiatrist and medical executive, he is President and CEO of Menninger’s, the famed clinic and foundation.
On June 25, 1951, in a federal courtroom in Topeka, Charles Bledsoe and Elisha Scott’s sons Charles and John with lawyers Robert Carter and Jack Greenberg of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund arrived ready to strike down segregation in Topeka’s public elementary schools.
Stanley Wellborn (1962). Journalist; he was Director of Public Affairs at the Brookings Institute and an editor at the “United States News & World Report.”
Pamela Hollie Kluge (1966). Journalist, foundation executive, civil society professor, conservationist, philanthropist; currently a senior fellow, The Prague Institute for Global Urban Development.
2010 Distinguished Staff Alma Calvert James Coder Annabel Pringle
2013 THS Distinguished Staff Dorothy Jones Greer Hazel Fleischer Lingo
2016 Distinguished Staff Ruth Hunt (THS Journalism) J.W. Jones (THS Physics)
2018 Distinguished Staff Dewayne Dirks
2020 Distinguished Staff Shirley Huttenhoff Ora McMillen
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erie Day School | 1929 | $5.0M | 25 | - |
| Natchitoches Parish School Board | - | $4.7M | 278 | 59 |
| Westerly Public Schools | - | $3.4M | 34 | 19 |
| Pittsfield Public Schools | - | $12.0M | 633 | 31 |
| East Hollywood High School | 2004 | $5.0M | 38 | - |
| Northwest R-I School District | 1957 | $2.1M | 50 | 36 |
| Copley-Fairlawn City Schools | - | $26.0M | 350 | 36 |
| Lindsay Public Schools | 1900 | $9.4M | 75 | - |
| Central Community School System | 2007 | $57.7M | 242 | 10 |
| Alexandria City Public Schools | - | $2.0M | 75 | 1 |
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