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African Americans. The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [1] It was substantially caused by poor economic and social conditions due to ...
The River Quay in the City Market area along the Missouri River on the north edge of Downtown Kansas City, had been a 1970s urban renewal project to offer a more family friendly entertainment complex based on the city's jazz heritage, replacing the establishments along 12th Street which had deteriorated into a center for crime, drugs, and ...
History. 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 ...
Leon Mercer Jordan (May 6, 1905 – July 15, 1970) was an African-American civil rights leader who served in the Missouri House of Representatives. [1] [2] Jordan was "one of the most influential African Americans in Kansas City's history" [3] and, at the time of his assassination in 1970, the "state's most powerful black politician".
Founded in 1949 at 520 W. 14th St., its name was inspired by the historic Kansas City stockyards just down the hill in the West Bottoms. In early 1964 it moved to its current spot just west of ...
Route 210 – A minor freeway east of North Kansas City that, as a two-lane road, stretches to Richmond, Missouri. Route 291 – Formerly an eastern bypass route of U.S. 71, this minor freeway connects Harrisonville and Lee's Summit to Independence, Sugar Creek, Liberty and Kansas City North. The roadway is designated on road signs alongside I ...
Toriano Porter/Kansas City Star. Kansas City’s first Black Feast Week kicked off this week. In the coming days, I’m going to have some tough decisions to make about lunch or dinner plans ...
North Kansas City is depicted in the area on the left of the bend in the Missouri River. North Kansas City is a city in Clay County, Missouri, United States. It is also enclaved in Kansas City. Even though the name is similar to its larger counterpart, Kansas City, it is an independent municipality and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.