A presença do aluno negro no colégio Liceu Cuiabano: formandos de 1945

Abstract

The goal of the research was to identify, through documentary sources available in the school archives of Liceu Cuiabano and in the Public Archives of Mato Grosso, information about the presence of black students on school benches in the 1940s. We will limit it to the newcomer high school class of 1942 (the graduates of 1945) of Liceu Cuiabano. This class was the first one to graduate in the new school building, installed in 1944. The integration of black students in public education of Mato Grosso is evident, however, it does not characterize the school as a democratic institution or as anti-racist. The research is supported by the culturalhistorical perspective and, as methodology, it was held documentary and bibliographical research and it also had contributions of individual and collective memory. The testimonies of the families of black students were of paramount importance to understand how that historical period was lived and the path taken by those students when they joined the institution and when they left it to launch themselves in a life of better conditions.