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2025 National Juneteenth Conference on Saving Black Families and Communities

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2025 Kansas Statewide Juneteenth Booth Rental

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Check out these stories about our programs in the press!

One School’s Missing History

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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.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-09-28/one-schools-missing-history/


Topekan Curtis Pitts calls for return of former Kansas Technical Institute to black community

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Watch the video here:

https://www.wibw.com/video/2022/06/20/topekan-curtis-pitts-calls-return-former-kansas-technical-institute-black-community/