About Blanche Kelso Bruce
The first black person to serve a full term in the United States Senate, Blanche K. Bruce was born in slavery near Farmville, Virginia, on March 1, 1841. After the military refused his application, he taught school, briefly attended Oberlin College and worked as a steamboat porter on the Mississippi River. In 1864 he settled in Hannibal, Missouri and organized the state's first school for blacks. Five years later he moved to Mississippi where he entered local politics and established himself as a prosperous landowner. On February 14, 1879, during debate on a Chinese exclusion bill that he opposed, Bruce became the first black senator to preside over a Senate session. Before his term ended the following March, Bruce continued to be an activist senator. After leaving this office in 1893 Washington, D.C., and again registrar of the treasury from 1897 until his death in Washington on March 17, 1898. |
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Mission
The mission of Blanche Kelso Bruce Elementary School is to provide a positive environment that motivates to conceive, to believe and to achieve their fullest potential.
La Declaración de la Misión
La misión de la Escuela Primaria de Blanche Kelso Bruce, es proporcionar un ambiente positivo que motive para concebir, para creer y alcanzar su capacidad máxima.
Programs
Bruce Elementary School Programs
- Music Magnet – Strings, Orchestra, Keyboard, Choir
- Extended Day
- 21st Century Afterschool Program
- Bilingual Education
- Special Education
- Title I
- Title III
- Title IV
Los Programas de la Escuela Primaria B.K. Bruce
- Música - Violín, cello, orquestra, piano y coro
- Día Extendido
- 21st Century – programa después de escuela
- Educación Bilingüe
- Educación Especial
- Título I
- Título III
- Título IV
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