Passage on history of Paseo High School states that the school, located on the northeast corner of Houston and Flora avenues, was originally called Highlands High. The name was changed to Paseo High…

Yearbook for the 2014 class of Northeast High School.

After ten years in operation, the Don Bosco Charter High School announced that it will close at the end of the 2010-2011 school year. Declining enrollment and poor attendance were cited as the…

On Saturday, Kansas City school officials released their plan to improve the area schools. Among the proposed steps, "the five year initiative calls for longer days and measuring progress by…

Editor, Mike Fannin, explains how the printed newspaper, The Kansas City Star, will be reorganized to adapt to the difficult economic time. The main news section will be combined with the local and…

Before her death in 2004, Lucille Douglass worked to restore the Benjamin Banneker School in Parkville, one of the first schools built for black students in Platte County. The project languished, but…

Early history of the public school system, starting with the problems in initial organization because of the Civil War up to 1882.

A portion of Kansas City from E. 24th Street south to E. 25th Street and from Park Avenue east to Prospect Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to…

Article about the history and effects of desegregation on Central High School, which shares the distinction of being Kansas City's oldest public school with Lincoln. Some illustrious alumni of…

Author describes his experiences as a student at Southwest High School, located at 65th and Wornall. Article includes a description of an "unwritten caste system" that existed in the…

Unframed (17.5" x 22") brown tone photograph portrait of William E. Benson. Inscription on back reads: "W. E. Benson, Secretary Board (school), 1891-1908."

Article about the widespread disapproval of the desegregation plan of the Kansas City School District, or Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD), due to high costs, ineffective results, and…

Article about the history of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers and their unique perspectives offered about Kansas City, with photos and biographical descriptions of several of its prominent…

Group portrait of newsboys and an adult posing behind stacks of newspapers and in front of a newspaper truck in Chillicothe, Missouri.

Topographical map of Kansas City, Missouri, overlaid by street grid. Major streets identified, as well as schools, railways and hospitals.

Joseph Hoffman seated at piano.

Yearbooks for the prep school for boys at 51st and Swope Parkway.

Map of Cass County showing townships in color. Also shows rivers, roads, sections lines, schools, and railroads.

Head and shoulders portrait of Joe McGuff, Sports Editor for the Kansas City Star.

A portion of northeast Kansas City from Anderson Avenue south to Garner Avenue and from Bales Avenue east to Monroe Avenue, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of pages refer to…

Front and side view of Central High School at Linwood Boulevard and Indiana Avenue with what appears to be two grouping of students in uniform pasted onto the image and then photographed again.…

View of unidentified children playing on playground on a patio off the main floor of the Woodland School, once located at 8th Street and Woodland Avenue.

Photo and bio of John Barrons, "[a]dvertising manager of the Kansas City Star."

An interview with one of the original plaintiffs in the Kansas City School desegregation case.