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Integration plan offered by state
Date: May 11, 1955
According to this article, the Topeka Board of Education had passed a resolution that would desegregate all schools by the start of classes in the fall. Even before the Supreme…
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A study made of 719 rural rehabilitation families relative to their standard of living
Date: 1935
This study was compiled by Conie Foote, supervisor of home economics, and her county home advisers. The report includes an introductory note from Foote, who states that the goal of…
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Suggestions for determining the clothing minimum budgets of families on relief
Date: August 29, 1934
This bulletin of the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee (KERC) includes information about the clothing needs of poor families on relief during the economic depression and drought of the 1930s. It…
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Home economics
Date: June 22, 1934
This bulletin, signed by John G. Stutz, executive director of the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee, describes their policy of encouraging home canning as part of a larger home economics project.…
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Case work procedure requirement
Date: December 28, 1933
This brief letter from John G. Stutz, executive director of the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee (KERC), was addressed to county commissioners, poor commissioners, case supervisors, and county relief committees across…
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Brief for the State. The State of Kansas versus Joseph E. McNaught
Date: 1885
Brief for the State in the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas. The State of Kansas, plaintiff versus Joseph E. McNaught, Defendant.
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Brief for the State. The State of Kansas versus James J. Clark
Date: Between 1885 and Unknown
Brief for the State in the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas. The State of Kansas, Plaintiff and Appellate versus James J. Clark, Defendant and Appellate.
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Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
Date: January 1, 1891
This report, which covers the year 1890, includes an introductory letter to Governor Lyman Humphrey written by Frank Betton, Commissioner of Labor and Industry, regarding the state’s compliance with sanitary…
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Part I: Child Labor in Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
Date: January 1, 1891
Part I of this government report addresses the problem of child labor in Kansas, which appeared to be increasing. Most of the report focuses on existing child labor laws in…
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Brief of plaintiff. The State of Kansas versus Lawson Cook
Date: 1880s
A Brief of Plaintiff in the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas. The State of Kansas, plaintiff, versus Lawson Cook, Defendant. Lawson Cook was convicted in Wyandotte county of…
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The swaggering chieftain booze
Date: November 3, 1914
A pamphlet written by the Honorable Dixon Warner of the Los Angles Bar. The pamphlet contains articles by Kansans such as Kansas Governor George H. Hodges, former Governor of Kansas…
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P. J. McBride to Emma Grimm
Date: December 12, 1917
In this letter P. J. McBride, the commissioner of labor and industry, responds to Emma Grimm’s letter to Governor Arthur Capper dated November 27, 1917. Grimm had expressed her displeasure…
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P. J. McBride to Ralph Tennal
Date: December 8, 1917
This letter was written in response to Ralph Tennal’s earlier letter (dated December 2) to Gov. Arthur Capper, which had been referred to P. J. McBride, the Commissioner of Labor…
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Negroes to mark court victory Tuesday night
Date: May 17, 1954
This article in the Topeka Journal outlines how the Topeka black community reacted to the Supreme Court’s decision that segregated schools were unconstitutional, finding in favor of the plaintiffs in…
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8,000 students affected, state officials see no trouble adjusting schools to new rule
Date: May 17, 1954
This article discusses how the state of Kansas will work to conform to the ruling made in the Brown v. Board of Education decision on May 17, 1954. The U.S.…
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School board votes end to Topeka segregation, move urged “as soon as practicable”
Date: September 4, 1953
This brief article describes the Topeka Board of Education’s decision to desegregate elementary schools (junior high and high schools were already integrated). It also mentions that the board approved the…
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“Why Kansas?” asks an editor
Date: December 20, 1953
This brief article outlines the reasons behind Kansas’s prominent role in the desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, which was currently being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. According…
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The cleansing of a large city
Date: July 26, 1907
This pamphlet outlines the beneficial results of prohibition laws in Kansas City, Kansas.
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Ass’t Attorney General Trickett’s address
Date: February 05, 1907
An address by Assistant Attorney General C.W. Trickett at the Convention State Temperance Union in Topeka, Kansas on February 5, 1907, with a subtitle of “The Story of the Kansas…
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Relief and loan services
Date: July 25, 1934
This pamphlet, which appears to have been distributed to relief clients, is a condensed summary of the government relief programs handled by the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee (KERC), the Agricultural…
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P. J. McBride to Roy Hennigh
Date: December 12, 1917
This letter was written in response to Roy Hennigh’s earlier letter (dated November 21) to Gov. Arthur Capper, which had been referred to P. J. McBride, the Commissioner of Labor…
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Facts proved by figures showing what prohibition has done for Kansas
Date: March 27, 1910
A speech by Governor Walter Stubbs on prohibition’s effect on Kansas, delivered at The Great Northern Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on March 27, 1910.
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Ralph Tennal to Arthur Capper
Date: December 2, 1917
Ralph Tennal, editor of the Sabetha Herald, wrote this letter to the governor in an attempt to convince Capper that child labor laws did more trouble than good. Tennal believes…
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Program of the thirtieth annual picnic at Stahl’s Grove, Shawnee County, Kansas
Date: June 24, 1909
A program for the thirtieth annual picnic at Stahl’s Grove, Shawnee County, Kansas, held on Thursday, June 24, 1909. It lists the events of the day such as bible readings,…
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Ralph Tennal to Arthur Capper
Date: November 22, 1917
Ralph Tennal, editor of the Sabetha Herald, wrote this letter to the governor complaining about a recent visit from an inspector who had ordered local merchants to comply with child…