(KAIR)--A special recognition of history is planned for Friday evening, as a past Atchison basketball team will take the spotlight during a presentation in the team's honor.
USD 409 Superintendent Dr. Susan Myers says the Lincoln School Kittens were a segregated high school team. “Some teams were integrated at our high school, some teams were not,” Myers tells MSC News. “Football was integrated before basketball, but they were not integrated right away. Track had always been.”
The Lincoln School Kittens won State Basketball Championships in 1936 and 1945, and those accomplishments will be recognized Friday evening.
That will happen during a ceremony timed with the evening's basketball match-up between Atchison and Sumner.
A banner has been made and will be presented at half time of the boys basketball game. It will then be hung in the high school gymnasium alongside other state championship teams.
