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In 1949 the Iowa Supreme Court determined Katz was in violation of the state's civil rights law. The 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in was one of the first protests of its kind during the civil rights movement, occurring on August 19, 1958, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In protest of racial discrimination, black schoolchildren sat at a lunch counter ...
The BMA Tower is a building in Kansas City, Missouri.Also known as One Park Place, it was built as a 19-story Modern style office building. Located on a prominent height 3 miles (4.8 km) south of downtown Kansas City, the 280 feet (85 m) building is uniquely visible.
Bannister Road is a major east–west street in Kansas City, Missouri, US, replacing 95th Street. It stretches 10.9 miles (17.5 km) from State Line Road at the Kansas-Missouri state line in the west to Route 350 and Unity Village in the east. It continues west as 95th Street into Kansas, and east as Colbern Road into Unity Village and Lee's Summit.
The economy of the Kansas City metropolitan area is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri, which is the largest city in the state [citation needed] and the 37th largest in the United States. The Kansas City metropolitan area is the 27th largest in the United States, based on the United States Census Bureau 's 2004 population estimates.
List of museums in Kansas City, Missouri; Independence, Missouri, in the KC metro, includes the Truman Library. Overland Park, Kansas, in the KC metro, includes the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens and Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead. Kansas City, Kansas, includes Children's Mercy Park and the Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch.
I-635 crosses the Missouri River from Kansas into Platte County and the city of Riverside, Missouri. There is an interchange with Horizons Parkway at exit 9 and then US 69 at exit 10. US 69 briefly runs concurrently with I-635 north before exiting at the interchange with Route 9 (exits 11A and 11B).
Approximately half of Kansas City's properties and districts are located in the downtown, which for the purposes of this list is defined as being roughly bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the east, and State Line Road to the west.
Commerce Tower is a 30-story skyscraper located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, US.Constructed in 1965, it is the ninth-tallest habitable structure in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, and since the completion of the City Hall, it was the first locally designed Skyscraper in Kansas City.