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Title
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KC @ 150--Lasting Legacies: 135 More
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Description
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Biographical sketch of N. Clark Smith (?-1935), "[n]ationally known black musician who composed hundreds of songs, choral works and an African symphony," arriving in Kansas City "as musical director at Lincoln High School."
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Date
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2000-05-21
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Mrs. Anna L. Henegan Dies in Washington
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Description
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Article/obituary for Mrs. Anna Henegan, "wife of a retired information officer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Information Agency." She was a native of Columbia, Missouri, educated at the Tuskegee Institute, "where her famous father, Major N. Clark Smith, served as bandmaster under the school's founder, Dr. Booker T. Washington." She was chief dietician at General Hospital Number 2 in Kansas City and formerly a home economics teacher in the public schools. She met her husband while he was "city editor of the Kansas City Call" and married in 1937. Their residence was at 2614 Newton Street.
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Date
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1967-02-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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African American Schools
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Description
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Schools, in particular Lincoln High School, were a source of pride and "instruments of community and racial formation in the 1920s and 1930s" amongst the African American community in Kansas City. This chapter provides a history of Kansas City's black schools and the teachers and administrators who worked in them. Several outstanding teachers who, had they been white would probably have taught in higher education, are profiled.
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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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Lincoln High School Cadet Band and Orchestra
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Description
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Group photograph of unidentified African American boys dressed in band uniforms holding their musical instruments. Identified on the drum as the Lincoln High School Cadet Band and Orchestra. The director, Major N. Clark Smith, is standing in the center next to the doors. Photograph was taken from p. 45 of the 1917 Lincoln High School yearbook.
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Date
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1917
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Object Type
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Photograph
