The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-03-20

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A MEMORIAL
TO THE
BOARD OF EDUCATION
OF
KANSAS CITY, MO.
FOR
IMPROVED SCHOOL FACILITIES.
FOR
NEGRO CHILDREN
BY
/. Parent.Teachers Association.
2. Kansas City Branch of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
8. City Federation Of Colored
Women's Clubs.
4. Kansas City Medical Society.
s. Civic League.
s. Lincoln High School Alumni
Association.
Z. InterCity Lawyers Club.
S. Negro Business League.
9. Inter.D enominational Ministerial
Alliance.
To the Honorable Board Of Education,
Kansas City, Mo.
Gentlemen:
Contrary to the general impression
OF the public that the condition OF
the Negro Schools meets the require
ments OF modern education in equip
ment. sanitation or teaching force.
upon numerous complaints from pa,
irons, visitors and educators, the var
ious organizations whose names art
hereto subscribed through their com
mittees undertook and made investi
cations into the Lincoln High Schoo
and the Colored Ward Schools Will
the following results which are here
with submitted to your Honorable
Board for your serious consideration
to the end that the conditions below
reported may be remedied.
Lincoln High School.
Lincoln High School was built il
1905 for $50 pupils, 100 moved il
when It opened. l9l9-l92O, $40 pu
pills are enrolled in day school anC
over zoo in night school.
The population Of Kansas City il
1905 was 2O6, 900; at present, it II
over $4,000.
The growth Of school population
and the demands of present day edu
cation have o~vercrowded Wesspor
High, Old Central and Manual Train
ing High. and necessitated the build
ing of Northeast High and the presen
Central High; and the report is tina
plans are already under way for on
/. or two additional high schools.
In these fifteen years of growth nc
one inch, of floor space has been ado
!. ed to Lincoln High w a few inadt
/. uuate and incomplete units for trade
Colored children travel from the e
IRENE limits of the entire school di
trict OF Kansas City to that one il
adequate structure at 18th and Trac
; for such preparation for useful cit
zenship as they can wiring out OF i
meager equipment.
Laboratories.
Only one laboratory, too small fl
size Of classes.
No lockers.
No stock room.
No lecture room.
Equipment antiquated.
Biology not taught at all.
Physics taught in an ordinary ella!
room fithout laboratory. demonsti
ton table, cabinet or equipment
Twelce classes in science daily
der these handicaps.
Physics teacher borrows suppl
and equipment from chemistry lab
atory, or physics and chemistry teaC
ers interchange rooms.
Needed:
% Physics Laboratory.
ta) Lockers.
90 Stock room.
tc) Lecture room.
t2) Chemistry Laboratory.
(a) Lockers.
CbJ Stock room
(c) Lecture room.
! (3) Biology Teacher.
- 90 Biology Laboratory.
(a) Lockers.
(b) Stock room.
(c) Lecture room.
Domestic Science Department.
I'm Basennent)
Inadequate kitchen.
Plumbing worn out.
Escaping gas necessitates open
windows during r~ecitations.
Gas stoves burnt out, legs rus
off. ovens burnt out.
An old worn out range.
Ragged inoleum partly covers
floor. Impossible to hold up ide
to girls where nothing is ideal,
NO STORE EROOMS.
NO LECTURE ROOMS.
! Three teachers conduct classes
1 two rooms, viz: the kitchen and