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Date: March 31, 1953
Attorney Robert Carter acknowledges receipt of a copy of a letter from McKinley Burnett sent with an enclosed memo from Superintendent of Topeka Schools, Kenneth McFarland. Carter advises Burnett that…
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Date: 1953
Lucinda Todd made this speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on the background of the Brown v. Board segregation case. The primary goal of the speech was to raise funds for…
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Date: September 14, 1951
The letter, dated September 14, 1951, was sent to Herbert Bell, President of the Abilene Branch of the NAACP, by Robert Carter, NAACP Assistant Special Counsel. Carter’s letter, similar to…
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Date: September 14, 1951
This letter dated September 14, 1951, is from NAACP Assistant Special Counsel Robert L. Carter to Topeka NAACP Chapter President McKinley Burnett. Carter advises Burnett that the National Chapter of…
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Date: 1951
Copy of Lucinda Todd’s 1951 handwritten news release outlining the legal actions underway, explaining the causes, and listing the names of the attorneys filing the actions associated with the effort…
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Date: September 13, 1948
This is a carbon copy of a letter dated September 13, 1948, from Daniel S. Sawyer on behalf of the Citizens Committee for Civil Rights to the Topeka Board of…
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Date: 1949
This flyer announces the upcoming visit of NAACP executive secretary Walter White to Topeka on Tuesday, April 26, 8:15 p.m., Memorial Hall, 10th and Jackson. Under his leadership, the NAACP…
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Date: April 26, 1949
This photograph taken in the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Hall of Topeka’s Memorial Building, shows NAACP executive secretary Walter White addressing a crowd that included former Kansas Governor…
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Date: 1948
This 1948 leaflet was created by the Citizens Committee on Civil Rights and used in conjunction with a citywide petition later rejected by the Topeka Board of Education. The Citizens…
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Date: Between 1920 and 1928
This pamphlet from the 1920s shows and describes Alvin K. Longren’s new folding-wing airplane designed as a business and pleasure vehicle. The folding wings were designed with ease of storage…
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This article, published in the August 1927 edition of The Wichita, covers Wichita’s status as the air capital of America, as well as the many manufacturers that helped give the…
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Date: June 1, 1907
This theatrical directory published by the Santa Fe Railroad Company provides a list of theaters and opera houses with their locations along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company…
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Date: 1927
This article from The Wichita magazine covers the construction of a new airplane and a new airplane factory by the Travel Air company of Wichita. Travel Air was formed in…
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Date: November 4, 1907
The Kansas Tax Commission sent this letter to all taxing authorities in the state in compliance with a 1907 state law directing a reassessment of taxable property and the application…
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Date: January 22, 1920
J.S. Hobbs writes to Governor Allen with questions about the newly created Industrial Court. The Court of Industrial Relations was created by special legislation in January 1920 following a series…
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Date: December 4, 1920
Members of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Freight Handlers and Station Employees write to Governor Allen opposing the Industrial Court Bill. They state that the bill “strikes at the fundamental…
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Date: May 15, 1912
This article covers the excitement generated by H.W. Jacobs’s Multiplane at the 1912 New York Aero Show in New York City. Jacobs, assistant superintendent of motive power of the Santa…
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Date: February 19, 1910
This article details the construction of the Prairie Eagle, a monoplane airplane, by Luxembourg-born inventor Jacques V. Mueller of Dorrance, Kansas. In addition, the article details the material used to…
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Date: December 28, 1909
This article from the Kansas City Star newspaper covers the early aviation experiments of Charles A. Wilson and William J. Purvis of Goodland, Kansas. The article explains the type of…
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Date: April 02, 1879
A letter giving notice that the railroad and other property of the Missouri River, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Company having been sold will hereafter be operated and managed by…
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Date: August 1875
This Kansas Pacific Railway brochure promotes land acquisition, tourism and freighting in both Kansas and Colorado. Included is a map of Kansas and Colorado with the Kansas Pacific Railway marked.…
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Date: December 31, 1927
This article sums up the accomplishments of the many Kansas airplane manufacturing companies since 1919, including the Wichita based Swallow Company, Travel Air, Inc., and Cessna Aircraft Company. In addition,…
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Date: February 19, 1924
This article details the delivery of the first Longren-manufactured airplane to the U.S. Navy. The Navy was especially interested in Longren’s design because of its fiber fuselage construction which combined…
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Date: August 27, 1921
This article deals with the production of a tractor-type biplane by the William A. Kepseker factory which was located at 917 East Sixth avenue in Topeka, Kansas. In addition, the…
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Date: June 12, 1919
In this article from the Topeka Journal, Albin K. Longren predicts that air travel will soon be as common and affordable as travel by motor vehicle. Longren also contends that…
