NEH Landmarks: Native American and African American Education in Kansas: Film Screening: Sumner High School: The Best Kept Secret

Event date, time, and location

June 21, 2017

7:00–9:00PM

Event description

This film documents Sumner High School locate in Kansas City, Kansas, and attended exclusively by African American students from 19051978. It highlights Sumner’s rich history, as well as the incident that initially prompted its segregation in 1905.

Co-sponsor: Spencer Museum of Art