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Hogan supposedly drew inspiration for his popular minstrel songs from the neighborhood and even had his first big hit, “La Pas Ma La,” published in Kansas City. After World War I, Black social ...
The Black Archives of Mid-America is an archive that collects and preserves materials documenting the political, social and cultural histories of persons of African American descent in the central United States, with a focus on the Kansas City, Missouri region. The Black Archives of Mid-America honors the African-American community heritage of ...
The History of Kansas City: Together with a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country with which it is Surrounded (Birdsall & Miller, 1881) online. Whitney, Carrie Westlake. Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People 1808-1908. Vol. 3 (SJ Clarke publishing Company, 1908) biographies of prominent figures. online. Shirley ...
A History of Music Education in the Black Community of Kansas City, Kansas, 1905-1954. Kansas State Historical Society, Historic Sites Survey. Historic Preservation in Kansas. Black History Sites, A Beginning Point. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1977. African Americans of Wichita (Images of America).
No. 11: Unearth the history of Kansas City’s lost Black neighborhood, demolished for city park Belvidere Hollow was a vibrant Black neighborhood in Kansas City, but by 1958 it ceased to exist ...
Segregation, Jim Crow laws, and redlining kept Black Kansas Citians east of Troost Avenue for much of the mid-20th century. Prospect became one of the main commercial thoroughfares of the East Side during the 1950s and 1960s, providing the entertainment that the African-American community was barred from in locations such as Westport, the River Quay, and the Country Club Plaza. [3]
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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 ...