This collections features items related to the St. Louis activist Alice Windom. The associated items were added as part of UMSL Course Project - HIST 6127.
This collection features items related to the Tower Grove Pride Festival in St. Louis. It focuses on the history of LGBTQIA+ community through oral testimonies, memorabilia from past events, photographs of participants, and much more. The associated items were added as part of HIST 6001 at UMSL.
High School was established in 1875 after extensive lobbying by some of St. Louis' African American residents. Sumner High School is a public high school in St. Louis. Sumner High School was the first high school for African American students west of the Mississippi River in the United States. Part of a segregated school system, Vashon High School and Sumner High School were the only two public high schools in St. Louis City for African American students. Sumner High School moved to its current location in 1908. It has historically been known as Charles H. Sumner High School and Sumner Stone High School.
This collection features items related to manifestations of whiteness. These examples illustrate how whiteness functions to maintain racial privilege and dominance within the beliefs, practices, and behaviors of societal systems.
Collection of material on the history of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital and School of Nursing. Includes information on activism and social groups concerned with the preservation of the hospital and the hopital's legacy within the Black community in St. Louis and the surrounding area.
This collection features items related to the demolition of buildings in St. Louis. It focuses on the impact of urbanization and the destruction of historic buildings on community as well as memory.
This collection features items related to churches in St. Louis. It focuses on preservation efforts, when and why they get demolished, and how their services benefit the community.
For over 103 years, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Gamma Omega Chapter, has transcended time in the Metropolitan St. Louis community by enriching lives through scholarship, community betterment and sisterhood. The original Chapter goals were to: (1) vitalize the ideals of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., (2) foster civic and educational movements and (3) encourage young women to attain a college education. The Chapter has maintained these timeless goals with adaptability, resourcefulness and updated objectives to improve and expand programs to enhance and augment to the community through
"Service to All Mankind".
This collection features items related to the Black Lives Matter movement. It focuses on protest against police violence and brutality against Black people, as well as the fight against racism.
