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Accession Number:2000-187-8
Accession Date:
Condition:good
Location:Archives, Black History Coll., Box 3, Folder 22
Keywords:Olive Decatur, teacher, Parkview High School, African-American, Lincoln, students
Area of Origin:Springfield MO
Period:ca 1957
Category:Documentary Artifact
Object:print, photographic
Maker:uk
Description/History:Black and white photo of teacher Olive Decatur with some of her students at Parkview High School. Decatur, a teacher at Lincoln School, was the first African American to teach in the Springfield Public Schools' formerly white schools after desegregation in 1954. RESTRICTED ACCESS. DO NOT USE WITHOUT PERMISSION.
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