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Kansas Technical Institute (Topeka)

defunct black college in Topeka, Kansas, U.S

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ139892438 ↗
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Kansas Technical Institute (KTI) was a public historically black college located in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It was founded in 1895, as Kansas Industrial and Educational Institute (KIEI), by Edward S. Stephens and Elizabeth Riddick. The college's name was changed to Kansas Vocational School (KVS) in 1923 and then to Kansas Technical Institute in 1951. The school closed in 1955.

Kansas Technical Institute's sports teams were known as the Buffaloes. The school's colors were purple and gold.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kansas Technical Institute (Topeka)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.