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Title: Northeast School Board Seat Uncontested Again
Description: No one has stepped up to run against former Northeast High School teacher Duane Kelly in the Northeast Subdistrict 3 position. Kelly was first elected in 2000 over Gina Gowin in Subdistrict 6.
Date: 2004-01-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Twelfth Street Heritage Asks School Board for Sports Field
Description: Twelfth Street Heritage proposes to build a NFL Community Football Field near Woodland Edison Classical Academy at Ninth and Woodland Avenue. The Kansas City School District owns the land and the school board was urged to consider the plan.
Date: 2002-01-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Obituary of James Hamilton Lyddon
Description: Obituary of James Hamilton Lyddon, a member of the Kansas City, Missouri, Board of Education during the tumultuous period of 1974 to 1978 when the school busing debate was in the forefront. He also served on the Board of Equalization and the Trustee Land Trust of Jackson County, Missouri, as well as other organizations.
Date: 2002-06-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: KC Pioneer Leads Way for Others
Description: Recognition of Gertrude Keith and her many accomplishments and contributions to Kansas City. Gertrude Keith was the first black woman elected to the Kansas City school board (1970).
Date: 2003-07-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: An Interview With Fletcher Daniels
Description: Interviewer: Ella Pruitt. Interview recorded May 5, 1976. 2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1976-05-05
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: School Board Elections Polling Places
Description: Page 5 from the January 17, 1972 edition of the Kansas City Star. Map shows wards and polling places.
Date: 1972-01-17
Object Type: Map

Title: How Long Will the Citizens of Kansas City Tolerate Discrimination at Fairyland Park?
Description: Single page flyer urging readers to protest racial discrimination at Fairyland Park. The flyer was printed by the Kansas City, Missouri, Branch Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
Date: 1961
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Hard Lessons
Description: Discusses the reasons Wiedeman resigned from the school board; namely, perceived racial tensions among the board members.
Date: 2000-08-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Taylor Made
Description: Article contrasts administrations of Kansas City School District Superintendents Benjamin Demps and Bernard Taylor and their relations with School Board.
Date: 2001-10-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: An Angry Advocate
Description: Biographical article about Julia Hill, "long a leader in local civil rights campaigns" and a 65-year-old (in 1988) prominent member of the Kansas City school board. The article discusses Hill's involvements with the Kansas City school system since 1943, first as a teacher and later as a principal and other titles and roles. Hill's also served as president of the local chapter of the NAACP from 1971 to 1980. Her offices as a student recruiter in 1988 were at the Pioneer campus of Penn Valley Community College.
Date: 1988-05-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Services for Community Advocate Marilyn Simmons to be Held Saturday
Description: Article on the death of Marilyn Simmons, "best known for her years of dedicated service to parents and students in the Kansas City, Mo., School District as President of the School Board and as chair woman of the District Advisory Committee." Simmons died from lung cancer and pneumonia on May 12, 2012.
Date: 2012-05-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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