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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 with their teacher, demanding to be served and refusing to leave until they were.
It is a major interchange of five major highways in the Kansas City area: I-49, I-435, I-470, US 50, US 71, and Missouri State Highway W. I-49/US 71 brings in traffic from the southeastern suburbs of the Kansas City area in Jackson and Cass counties. I-49 currently ends at the triangle, but the road continues northwest into Kansas City as US 71.
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.
K-32 was first established as a state highway in 1927. At that time, the highway ran from US-40 northeast of Lawrence to the Missouri border in Kansas City. By 1937, K-32 was realigned off of Kansas Avenue to follow Muncie Bluff Road and Central Avenue through Kansas City. In the early 1950s, the highway was built on a new alignment to the east ...
Location mi [1] km Destinations Notes; Kansas City: 0.000: 0.000: State Line Road / Kenneth Parkway: Kansas–Missouri state line; road continues into Leawood, Kansas as 135th Street: 2.285: 3.677: Route D (Holmes Road) Interchange: 3.730: 6.003: Thunderbird Road: Interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance only, [6] converted from ...
Route 9 is a highway in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Its northern terminus is at Interstate 29/U.S. Route 71 in Kansas City North; its southern terminus is at Interstate 35/Interstate 70/U.S. Route 24/U.S. Route 40 in downtown Kansas City. Even though both termini are in Kansas City, it passes through other towns and cities.
The Oklahoma City Streetcar (OKC Streetcar), also known as the MAPS 3 streetcar, is a streetcar system in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, that opened in 2018 and is operated by Embark. The 4.8-mile (7.7 km) system serves the greater downtown Oklahoma City area using modern, low-floor streetcars, [ 4 ] the first of which was delivered in ...
Kansas City, Missouri ... Map of racial distribution in Kansas City, 2010 U.S. Census. ... Kansas City jazz in the 1930s marked the transition from big bands to the ...