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Title
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Early Local African American Educators
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Description
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The significance to Kansas City schools of African Americans R.T. Coles or Richard T. Coles, G.N. Grisham, and W.W. Yates is detailed in this book. Coles placed significance on the manual arts for the African American students in the Kansas City School District. "Like his good friend James Dallas Bowser, Coles also edited a weekly newspaper, the Kansas City Dispatch, and he served with Bowser on the Inter-Racial Committee of Twelve organized in 1920." Grisham was principal of Lincoln School and a nationally known African American educator of the time. Yates was also a principal of Lincoln School as well as Wendall Phillips School. He was married to Josephine Silone Yates, a leader in the African American women's club movement who is also described.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Notable Women in Early Kansas City
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Description
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Editorial about Kansas City Colored Women's League and its founders Josephine Silone Yates and Anna Jones.
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Date
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2004-02-16
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Yours for the Race: The Life and Work of Josephine Silone Yates
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and biographical article about Josephine Silone Yates, or Josephine Yates (1859-1912), "a longtime teacher at Jefferson City's Lincoln Institute and a writer whose passionate pleas for racial uplift appeared in such periodicals as the 'Southern Workman,' 'The Voice of the Negro,' the 'Woman's Era' ["the first monthly magazine published by black women in this country"], the 'Indianapolis Freeman,' and the Kansas City 'Rising Son,' provid[ing] the most distinctive mid-American voice in this struggle." Native of New York moving to Jefferson City, Missouri in 1881 as a teacher and then coming to Kansas City about 1889 as a writer and teacher (later in her career at Lincoln High School), "serv[ing] as the leading force behind and the first president of the Women's League of Kansas City" in 1893 with a "house at 1625 Cottage Street as a 'Home for Working Girls.'"
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Date
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1996-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
