163:, in 1895, where they married and founded a kindergarten. Stephens also secured funding from the Kansas state legislature to start the Industrial and Educational Institute, exclusively for African American students, with Stephens as its first president. The Institute later became the Kansas Vocational School, with a campus ultimately comprising over 100 acres It was subsequently renamed the Kansas Technical Institute at Topeka. While in Topeka, Stephens was reported to have fallen out with other leaders in the African American community and been pushed out by them of his leadership position with the Institute.
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