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Paris Schools: Celebrating 150 Years of Excellence in Education

Paris Schools: Celebrating 150 Years of Excellence in Education

The images and content featured in this gallery were part of a Hopewell exhibit in 2011. The Hopewell Museum also has an extensive collection of Paris school yearbooks from the 1920s to the present, with those post-1950 digitally available here on our website.

Paris Western teacher & Principal, Mary E. Kellis
The Supreme Court's ruling in Brown vs. Topeka School Board in 1954 paved the way for the integration of public schools in the country. In late 1954, the City School Board selected an Integration committee with attorney Grover Baldwin as its chair and Western teacher Mary E. Kellis as secretary.
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