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Creation Date
1983
Description
Book page with three black and white photographs. Top photograph has African American girls standing behind a table with flower displays on it. Bottom Left photo has an African American toddler held by an African American woman while a African American doctor and white woman examine the child's arm. Bottom right photo is of a school room with African American children at desks with a paper craft and a coal furnace in the background. Edited by Dorothy Weinz Jerse and Judith Stedman Calvert. Published by Indiana University Press. Text: Captions for top photo: A flower show was held at the Booker T. Washington School, 1101 S. 13th street in August 1949. Caption for bottom left photo: This young man is the smiling subject of examination at the Well Child Clinic sponsored by the Highland School P.T.A. in 1949. Highland School was located at the northeast corner of Elizabeth Avenue and N. 15th Street. bottom right caption: Black youngsters in a Terre haute classroom figured in a series of school photographs prepared by Superintendent William H. Wiley for an exhibit at the 19+04 Chicago World's Fair. After the state desegregation law was passed in 1949, black students could choose between the elementary school in their neighborhood and the "for colored only" school that they had been attending.
Keywords
Indiana State University, University Archives, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Education Exhibit