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Homer G. Phillips Hospital and School of Nursing

  • Education
  • Health
  • Science
  • Segregation & Community Building, 1890-1945
Photograph of Homer G. Philips hospital and students
Illustration of school building
Biography

The First African American Physician

  • Education
Black and White photograph of female African American students seated in a classroom.  They appear to be sewing/  There are several women standing toward the chalkboard in the rear of the class.  There is one sewing machine in the foreground, being used by a woman.  A woman stands in the front of the class next to a dressed mannequin wearing a long-sleeved blouse and long skirt.
Historic Event

W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 Paris Exposition

  • Education
Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation
Present to Past

Education for All

  • Education