Separate and Not Equal: A History of Race and Education in America
Exhibition Overview
Celka Straughn, curator
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.
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.
Works of art
