Famous Kansan Bookmarks
Meet the 20 different people in our bookmark series.
- Blackbear Bosin, artist
- Gwendolyn Brooks, poet
- Glenn Cunningham, Olympic athlete
- John Steuart Curry, artist
- Aaron Douglas, artist
- Ron Evans, NASA astronaut
- Minnie Grinstead, first woman in Kansas Legislature
- William Inge, Broadway playwright
- Jack Kilby, inventor of microchip
- James Lane, leader of Free State Party
- Mary Elizabeth Lease, orator for the Populist Party
- Julia Louisa Lovejoy, abolitionist
- Lutle Lytle, first African American woman admitted to the Kansas bar
- James Naismith, inventor of basketball
- Clarina Nichols, advocate of women's rights
- Susanna Salter, first woman elected mayor in the United States
- Charles Sheldon, Topeka pastor, founded black kindergarten
- Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, led Exodusters to Kansas
- Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer
- Mamie Williams, prominent educator
