Marilyn Jensen teaches her first-grade class at Lincoln School in Brookfield in 1967.
Mrs. Peter J. Alt, the first Evanston woman to be hired as a school crossing guard, helps children across an Evanston street corner in 1942.
Marva Collins teaches at Westside Preparatory School in Chicago in the 1980s.
John Klinger and John Dunn work in the wood shop at Parker High School on April 14, 1938.
Calvin Penfield teaches at Lane Tech High School on the first day of school on Sept. 1, 1971. It was the first year young women were allowed to attend the school.
David Walker, 14, left, and Oscar Velasco, 14, right, chat with Helen Cwinkala, 13, in a hallway at Lane Tech High School on Sept. 1, 1971. For the first time in the school’s 63-year history, girls began attending the school.
Student teacher Cheryl Warren and Rev. John R. Porter work with students from Beale, Lowe and Kershaw schools at a Freedom School during a civil rights boycott of their regular schools in 1963.
The Rev. John Mao of St. Therese Chinese Catholic School teaches “God Bless and Protect America” in Chinese to students in 1942.
With notebooks and lunchboxes in hand, students arrive for the second day of school at North View Elementary School in Bolingbrook in 1982.
Members of the Highland Park High School band practice in 1950.
Bobbi Benning reassures her son, Chad, 7, before he enters class at Army Trail Elementary School on the first day of school in Addison on Sept. 1, 1987.
Edison Elementary School children sit at their desk in 1950 in Elmhurst.
