Separate and Not Equal: A History of Race and Education in America
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Separate and Not Equal: A History of Race and Education in America
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
May 27, 2017–October 1, 2017
Gallery 408, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This exhibition explores the charged history of racial discrimination and disparity in American education using powerful works from the Spencer Museum’s permanent collection. Separate and Not Equal charts important moments over more than a century of shifting educational policies that specifically targeted Native American and African American children and their families, from the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 through the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education and its immediate aftermath. Historic works, like beaded objects made by students in American Indian boarding schools or evocative prints of local African Americans from the Lawrence area, directly attest to the lived experiences of African Americans and Native Americans during their long struggles for public education free from constraint and discrimination. Contemporary pieces, such as photographs from Civil Rights-era protests or ceramic basketballs that comment on current assimilation practices, speak to the difficult dialogues about racial disparity in American schools that remain ongoing.
Separate and Not Equal is organized in conjunction with the project “Native American and African American Education in Kansas, 1830-1960” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture program.
Exhibition images
Works of art
circa 1939
circa 1939
circa 1939
1901–1904
1922–1928
Events
September 28, 2017
Talk
10:00–11:00AM
Spencer Museum of Art, Gallery 408, Kemper Family Foundations Balcony
June 20, 2017
Activity
9:00–10:15AM
Haskell Indian Nations University
June 20, 2017
Talk
3:45–5:00PM
Fraser Hall, Room 119
August 26, 2017
Talk
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Gallery 408, Kemper Family Foundations Balcony
June 18, 2017
Social
12:00–1:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium Lobby, Rm 309 Lobby, 1301 Mississippi St
July 9, 2017
Social
12:30–1:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium Lobby, Rm 309 Lobby, 1301 Mississippi St
June 18, 2017
Talk
1:00–1:45PM
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium, Rm 309, 1301 Mississippi St
July 9, 2017
Talk
1:00–1:45PM
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium, Rm 309, 1301 Mississippi St
June 18, 2017
Talk
1:45–2:45PM
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium, Rm 309, 1301 Mississippi St
July 9, 2017
Talk
1:45–2:45PM
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium, Rm 309, 1301 Mississippi St
July 9, 2017
Tour
3:00–4:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Kemper Family Foundations Balcony, 408
June 18, 2017
Talk
4:30–5:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium, Rm 309, 1301 Mississippi St
June 18, 2017
Social
6:00–8:00PM
Genovese, 941 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, KS 66044
July 9, 2017
Talk
4:30–5:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium, Rm 309, 1301 Mississippi St
June 19, 2017
Talk
8:30–9:30AM
LEEP2, Room 1420, 1536 W 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045
July 10, 2017
Talk
8:45–9:45AM
Green Hall, Room 107, 1535 W. 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045
June 19, 2017
Activity
11:00AM–12:30PM
Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site, 3403 West 53rd St., Fairway, KS
July 10, 2017
Workshop
9:00–10:15AM
Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site, 3403 West 53rd St., Fairway, KS
July 11, 2017
Activity
10:00–11:30AM
Haskell Indian Nations University
June 19, 2017
Talk
2:30–3:30PM
Parker Lecture Hall, Haskell Indian Nations University
July 10, 2017
Talk
2:30–3:30PM
Parker Lecture Hall, Haskell Indian Nations University
June 19, 2017
Talk
3:45–5:00PM
Haskell Indian Nations University, 2400 Barker Ave., Lawrence, KS
July 10, 2017
Talk
3:45–5:00PM
Haskell Indian Nations University, 2400 Barker Ave., Lawrence, KS
June 19, 2017
Screening
7:00–8:30PM
Allen Room, Springhill Suites by Marriott, 1 Riverfront Plaza, Lawrence, KS 66044
July 10, 2017
Screening
7:00–8:30PM
Allen Room, Springhill Suites by Marriott, 1 Riverfront Plaza, Lawrence, KS 66044
July 11, 2017
Activity
9:00–10:15AM
Haskell Indian Nations University, 155 East Indian Avenue Lawrence, KS
June 20, 2017
Talk
10:30–11:30AM
Parker Lecture Hall, Haskell Indian Nations University, 155 Indian Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66046
July 11, 2017
Talk
9:00–10:00AM
Parker Lecture Hall, Haskell Indian Nations University, 155 Indian Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66046
June 20, 2017
Talk
1:00–2:00PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
July 11, 2017
Talk
1:00–2:00PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
June 20, 2017
Talk
2:15–3:30PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
July 11, 2017
Talk
2:15–3:30PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
June 20, 2017
Workshop
3:45–5:00PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
July 11, 2017
Workshop
3:45–5:00PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
June 21, 2017
Activity
9:30–11:00AM
Black Archives of Mid-America, 1722 E 17th Terr, Kansas City, MO
July 12, 2017
Activity
9:30–11:00AM
Black Archives of Mid-America, 1722 E 17th Terr, Kansas City, MO
June 21, 2017
Talk
11:15AM–12:15PM
Black Archives of Mid-America, 1722 E 17th Terr, Kansas City, MO
July 12, 2017
Talk
11:15AM–12:15PM
Black Archives of Mid-America, 1722 E 17th Terr, Kansas City, MO
June 21, 2017
Workshop
2:00–4:00PM
North Gallery and Johnson Room, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, KS
July 12, 2017
Workshop
2:00–4:00PM
North Gallery and Johnson Room, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, KS
June 21, 2017
Screening
7:00–9:00PM
Allen Room, Springhill Suites by Marriott, 1 Riverfront Plaza, Lawrence, KS 66044
July 12, 2017
Screening
7:00–9:00PM
Allen Room, Springhill Suites by Marriott, 1 Riverfront Plaza, Lawrence, KS 66044
June 22, 2017
Talk
10:00–11:00AM
North Gallery, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, KS
July 13, 2017
Talk
10:00–11:00AM
North Gallery, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, KS
June 22, 2017
Talk
11:00AM–12:00PM
North Gallery and Johnson Room, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, KS
July 13, 2017
Talk
11:00AM–12:00PM
North Gallery and Johnson Room, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, KS
June 22, 2017
Talk
1:30–2:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Kemper Family Foundations Balcony, 408
June 22, 2017
Talk
2:45–3:45PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
July 13, 2017
Talk
2:45–3:45PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
June 22, 2017
Workshop
4:00–5:00PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
July 13, 2017
Workshop
4:00–5:00PM
Fraser Hall, Rm 119, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd
June 22, 2017
Social
5:30–7:00PM
Merchants Pub & Plate, 746 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, KS 66044
June 23, 2017
Workshop
9:30–11:00AM
1515 SE Monroe St, Topeka, KS 66612
July 14, 2017
Workshop
9:30–11:00AM
1515 SE Monroe St, Topeka, KS 66612
June 23, 2017
Talk
11:15AM–12:15PM
1515 SE Monroe St, Topeka, KS 66612
July 14, 2017
Talk
11:15AM–12:15PM
1515 SE Monroe St, Topeka, KS 66612
June 23, 2017
Talk
2:00–3:00PM
LEEP2, Room 1420, 1536 W 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045
July 14, 2017
Talk
2:00–3:00PM
Green Hall, Room 107, 1535 W. 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045
June 23, 2017
Workshop
3:15–5:00PM
LEEP2, Room 1420, 1536 W 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045
July 14, 2017
Workshop
3:15–5:00PM
Green Hall, Room 107, 1535 W. 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045
June 24, 2017
Talk
8:30–11:45AM
Wescoe Hall, Rm 4088, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd, The Forum at Marvin Hall, Room 216, 1465 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence KS 66045
July 15, 2017
Talk
8:30–11:45AM
Chalmers Hall, Rm 315, 1467 Jayhawk Blvd
June 24, 2017
Social
12:30–2:30PM
1200 Oread Ave, Lawrence, KS 66044
July 15, 2017
Social
12:30–1:30PM
1200 Oread Ave, Lawrence, KS 66044
June 18–June 24, 2017
Conference
July 9, 2017–July 15, 2021
Conference