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In December 2007, the Kansas Humanities Council awarded a grant to the Concerned Citizens of Old Quindaro, Kansas City, for In Unity There is Strength: The African American Experience, an exhibit to interpret the history of former slaves who escaped to Quindaro from across the Missouri River in the mid-19th century. The exhibit was to cover ...
Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum: Memphis: Tennessee: 1997 [149] Slave Mart Museum: Charleston: South Carolina: 1938 [150] Smith-Robertson Museum and Cultural Center Jackson: Mississippi: 1984 [151] Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum: Tallahassee: Florida: 1976 [152] Spady Cultural Heritage Museum: Delray ...
This list of museums in Kansas City, Missouri encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including non-profit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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Here are 10 museums to visit during Black History Month 2023 to delve into African American history and civil rights, from Montgomery to Baltimore.
Kansas was admitted to the United States as a free state in 1861. Some Black slaves were imported to Kansas. Many Black migrants came from the Southern United States as hired laborers while others traveled to Kansas as escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Some moved from the South during the Kansas Exodus in the 1860s.
Garrison Field House, just north of the hollow in Garrison Square, served the Black community and boasted the first branch of the Kansas City Public Library that served Black Kansas Citians.
Upon arrival there in October 1843, Richard Wornall purchased five slaves and a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) farm from the town's father, John Calvin McCoy. The land, for which Wornall paid $5 per acre, stretched between present-day 59th and 67th streets, State Line, and Main Street in what is now Kansas City.