In June 1995, Dr. Judith McConnell and students from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, interviewed Charles Sheldon Sudduth about his kindergarten experiences. Sudduth was one of the few remaining alumni of the Tennessee Town Kindergarten, the first kindergarten for black children west of the Mississippi, founded in 1893. This article, which includes the interview, is based on a paper presented by Dr. McConnell at the conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, December, 1995, entitled “Kindergarten in Kansas: A View from the Beginning. ”*
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