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This photograph shows Hightower Theodore Kealing, President and Superintendent, of Western University in Quindaro, Kansas. During his tenure from 1910 to 1918, the University added a junior college and a school of religion. The school was established in 1865 and was located in the city limits of Quindaro along the south banks of the Missouri River in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Considered one of the earliest African American schools west of the Mississippi River it provided a four year education to African-American students for seventy-eight years until it closed in 1943.
Date: Between 1916 and 1917
Item Number: 530801
Call Number: S.P.371.94q H
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 530801
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Educators
Collections - Library
Date - 1910s - 1916
Date - 1910s - 1917
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Western University
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Catalog
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - African Americans
Places - Cities and towns - Kansas City
Places - Cities and towns - Quindaro
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Rivers - Missouri
Type of Material - Photographs
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