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This slate pencil fragment was recovered during the Kansas Archeology Training Program field school in 2022 at Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park in Topeka. Slate pencils were used on slate boards and were meant to be erasable. An earlier school, Monroe School, was on the property from 1874 to 1927. The current Monroe Elementary School (built in 1926 and closed in 1975) serves as the interpretive center for the park. Both were segregated African American schools until 1954 when the Supreme Court ended legal segregation in the United States.
Date: 1874-1930
Item Number: 511869
Call Number: 14SH113-222.001-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 511869
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Education - Segregation and desegregation
Education - Segregation and desegregation - Brown v. Board
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - Children
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
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