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school uniform: United States -- individual schools Grant School
U.S. School Clothes: Grantville School (Kansas, 1929)
Figure 1.-- We know that this is the Grantville School, a public elementary school in 1929 because it is written on the back. Grantville is a small town northeast of Topeka. Given all the overalls, the children are mostly farm children. Given the substantial building in the background, it suprises us that so many of the boys wear overalls. The age differebtial suggests that this mayb be all the students at the school. It seems a small grouop for the large building. We usually only see that at small rural schools. Grantville is a very small town, so most of the children must have lived on farms.
We know that this is the Grantville School, a public elementary school in 1929 because it is written on the back. Grantville is a small town northeast of Topeka. Given all the overalls, the children are mostly farm children. Given the substantial building in the background, it suprises us that so many of the boys wear overalls. The age differebtial suggests that this mayb be all the students at the school. It seems a small grouop for the large building. We usually only see that at small rural schools. Grantville is a very small town, so mist of the children must have lived on farms. Notice that this was a fully integrated school. We see both black and native American children.
This is interedting because the court case that led to the Suprecour Desegregation Decision, id usually cited as Brown vs Topeka. attually three Southern sStates (Virginia, South Carolina, and Delaware) and the District of Columbia were involved, all of which had fully segregated school systems. Kansas was different. Kansas did not mandate segregation by law, butb permitted segregation school districts to segregate. The Kansas City high schools were segregated as were elementary schools. This largely depebdended in the size of the community. Elemnentary schools in larger towns and cities, such as Topeka, weresegregated. In smaller towns like Grantville, they were integrated. This is a photo in a paper frame which is how studios commonly handeled portarits after the decline of the cabinet card.
