J. R. E. Lee: Striving for Black Student Excellence at Lincoln High School

• In Event: Life Histories of Principal and Teacher Activists: Developing Black High Schools in the United States

Abstract

Kansas City’s Lincoln High School was the first segregated high school for Black students. Lincoln High School emerged from a de jure segregated public education system in the aftermath of the Civil War. Kansas City, Missouri’s segregated public schools operated from 1867 to 1955. Lincoln High School has a proud history rooted in excellence and student success, which is largely attributable to prominent and influential educators like that of J.R.E. Lee who made Lincoln among the best in the nation.

Authors

• Bradley Poos, University of Missouri - Kansas City
  Presenting Author

• Loyce E. Caruthers, University of Missouri - Kansas City
  Presenting Author

• Marceline Cooley
  Presenting Author