From Education To Incarceration| Countercurrents
“Thinking that this was the Brown v. the Board of Education city, this should be just like Atlanta with the Black community prospering,” Pitts told me,
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“Thinking that this was the Brown v. the Board of Education city, this should be just like Atlanta with the Black community prospering,” Pitts told me,
By Tamar Sarai | - ( Tomdispatch.com ) - Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, …
Article: Tomgram: Tamar Sarai, From Education to Incarceration - Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, community organizer Curtis Pitts learned about a hidden slice of that city's history that would come to shape his life's work over the next four decades. He was introduced to the Kansas Technical Institute, or KTI, a Black vocational college that had prospered throughout the early twentieth century, only to close in the mid-1950s[...]