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Date: September 26, 1944
This article describes an African American protest against the repeal of a theater license ordinance in Topeka, Kansas. The group argued that an 1870 Kansas statute mandated that businesses licensed…
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Date: March 8, 1942
This newspaper clipping addresses the case of D.E. Kern of Newton, Kansas. Newton, an African American, was refused the right to swim in Newton’s pool “on the ground that his…
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Date: 1873-1874
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1887-1888
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1870
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1869-1871
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1879
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1887-1888
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: August 19, 1938
In this letter, Mayme Moore and J.E. Farmer of the Young Democrats Club of Sedgwick County–Colored Division, thank Governor Walter Huxman for his efforts to give African Americans “the advantages…
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Date: August 2, 1938
Kansas State School of Medicine student Emerald L. Moon thanks Governor Walter Huxman for “the attention and action he gave to the “unjust prejudice against members of my race.” A…
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Date: July 11, 1938
In this letter to Governor Huxman, University of Kansas Chancellor E.H. Lindley informs Huxman that a group of African Americans visited his office and complained that the university’s medical school…
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Date: February 18, 1941
In this letter from Senator Capper to Mrs. Barbara Winthrop, Evanston, Illinois, President of We the Mothers Mobilize for America, Capper explains his stance on involving the United States in…
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Date: February 26, 1937
In this letter to Senator Arthur Capper, Fred Atkins Moore of the Emergency Peace Campaign, attempts to persuade Capper that he should throw his support behind the peace campaign because…
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Date: 1889
A pictorial publication containing sixty photographs and illustrations of Wichita, Kansas. The following are inlcuded: street scenes, business buildings, schools, opera house, hotels, churches, factories, depots, government buildings, electric railways,…
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Date: August 18, 1917
A Descriptive Card of Public Animals issued to Dr. Seth A. Hammel, Topeka, Kansas. This card was submitted by soldiers requesting permission to purchase their own horses for military service.…
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Date: September 01, 1937
In this letter from Ray Newton, Excutive Director of the Emergency Peace Campaign, to Senator Arthur Capper, Newton attempts to convey the importance of “World Economic Cooperation” in order for…
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Date: Unknown
This item includes the full text of the resolution introduced by Kansas Senator Arthur Capper in reply to the Briand Peace Offer. Signed on August 27, 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact…
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Date: 1872
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1873
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1885-1886
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1887-1888
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1887
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1887-1888
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1880
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Date: 1880-1886
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
