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One School’s Missing History
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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