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Brookings Hall was one of the first buildings on the Danforth Campus. The cornerstone for Brookings (then University) Hall was laid on November 3, 1900, and construction was completed in 1902. The architects were the Philadelphia firm Cope & Stewardson, represented by James P. Jamieson. The general contractor was Bright Construction Company. These companies worked …
Washington University in St. Louis
1853 - Present
After the Civil War, Missouri passed a mandate that required each town to educate Black children and provide a separate school if the community reached a threshold of 20 African American students. The Neosho School was converted from a residence to a one-room schoolhouse for that reason. The building was used from 1872 until the …
Neosho Colored School
1872 - 1891
This photograph of the first kindergarten class to attend Des Peres School in 1873 represents the Kindergarten Movement in St. Louis. This school, and the class pictured, are significant because the school was the site of the first public kindergarten in the United States. The movement can be traced back to Blankenburg, Germany, where Friedrich …
First Kindergarten Class, Des Peres School
1873
Glass lantern slide belonging to Arthur Hildreth, created by the US Slide Company of Kansas City, Missouri. It is a color image of the members of the first class of osteopathy on glass with Andrew Taylor Still in the center standing next to a skeleton. On October 3rd, 1892, Andrew Taylor Still began classes at …
First Class of the American School of Osteopathy
1892
At the turn of the 19th century, Missouri’s growing population demanded access to education. Private tutors and schools were the only options for structured learning until the 1830s when tax-funded public schools were introduced in several Missouri cities. Although public schools proliferated into the 1870s, private schools continued to flourish as they addressed the unique …
Visitation Academy Bed Frame
1900s
Springfield Public Schools is the largest school district in Missouri, with more than 23,500 students enrolled. The school district consists of 35 elementary schools, an intermediate school, nine middle schools, five high schools, and four early childhood centers. Springfield’s first high school was established in 1867. Its first graduating class had just two members. As Springfield’s …
Springfield High School Yearbook
1902
Saint Louis University has a long storied place in Missouri history. The University’s College of Arts and Science traces its origins to the St. Louis Academy. Established in 1818, the academy was the first institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River. Saint Louis University received its formal charter for the state in 1832, …
Billiken
1908
St. Patrick’s Day, a day most commonly associated with green, alcohol, and joyous celebration, also has a special connection with engineering students across the world. St. Patrick, born in the late 4th century AD, was known for spreading Christianity and building churches, particularly in Ireland. He is credited with introducing arches and the use of …
St. Patrick’s Day
1908
Published in 1916, this May-June magazine issue from the Willows Maternity Sanitarium highlights a hidden yet complex network of seven mother-baby homes that operated within Kansas City during the twentieth century. This network thrived due to the city’s centralized location in the national railroad system and Missouri’s relaxed adoption laws. Women came to these Kansas …
The Willows
1916
Located in Kansas City’s Westside, the Guadalupe Center is one of the most prominent Latinx organizations in the region. Founded in 1919 by the Agnes Ward Amberg Club, a group of affluent white Catholic women, the center sought to address the needs of the Mexican immigrant community and the discrimination they faced locally. Despite its …
The Guadalupe Center Scrapbooks
1920 - 1940
After Missouri emancipated the state’s enslaved people on January 11, 1865, many of Greene County’s Black residents settled in Springfield. The largest neighborhood was near modern-day Drury University and the Ozarks Technical Community College. To serve the growing African American population, a Freedmen’s School opened in Springfield. The school was held in the “upper part …
Lincoln High School Drum
1931 - 1955
In these photographs, Members of the Missouri Wing Civil Air Patrol drill and practice a simulated air crash in Greene County. The Civil Air Patrol is a congressionally chartered auxiliary of the United States Air Forces. Founded in 1941, the CAP’s first missions were to aid in spotting enemy submarine and aircraft activity near U.S. …
Missouri Wing Civil Air Patrol
1941 - present
In the early twentieth century, Missouri’s hospitals engaged in discriminatory practices. Frustrated by lack of care and educational opportunities, Black leaders sought to establish racially segregated facilities to meet their community’s needs. In 1937, Homer G. Phillips Hospital opened its doors to African American students and patients in St. Louis. Located at 2601 Whittier Street, …
Homer G. Phillips Nursing Cap & Dress
1956
In 1954, the St. Louis Public Schools Instruction Department drafted a report outlining the city’s integration plan following the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision. Although the report acknowledged that total desegregation was possible for the 1954-1955 school year, its authors proposed a more gradual integration schedule for the city’s 90,000 students. Using …
Report: “Desegregation of the Public Schools”
1956
The St. Louis Zoo, established in 1904, is one of the country’s leading zoological institutions focusing on animal management, research, conservation, and education. The Zoo owes much of its national recognition to Marlin Perkins, who quit college to join the Zoo in 1926. Over the next eleven years, as Director of the Reptile Exhibits, Perkins …
“Mr. Moke” – St. Louis Zoo
1960 - 1969
In 1970, the country witnessed rising anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in response to increased U.S. military intervention in Southeast Asia. Two tragedies that year–the Kent State and Jackson State University Shootings–ignited protests at the University of Missouri–Columbia opposing the war and condemning the killings of dissenting students. MU students held several rallies, marches, class strikes, tagged …
Anti-War Demonstration
1970
The Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s brought national visibility to the fight for Mexican American civil rights, and Missouri was no exception. Despite making up a small population in the state, Mexican Americans and Latinxs engaged in local and national efforts to end discrimination and bring about social change. Entire families participated in …
Interview With Carlos Salazar
2017