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Zona Rosa is an approximately 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m 2), mixed-use lifestyle center located in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri. [1] The project opened in 2004 and was expanded by an additional 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2) starting in 2008, including the addition of Dillard's, which moved from Metro North Mall.
Margaret Jessie Chung (Chinese: 張瑪珠, () October 2, 1889 – () January 5, 1959), born in Santa Barbara, California, was the first known American-born Chinese female physician.
African Americans in Kansas. There is an African-American community in Kansas, including in Kansas City, Kansas. [3] Nicodemus, Kansas is the oldest surviving town west of the Mississippi River settled solely by African Americans. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was decided in 1954. [4]
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Jean L. Harris in 1955 is the first African American woman to earn a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. [93] Jane Hinton in 1949 is one of the first of two African American women to become a doctor of veterinary medicine. [94] Lillian Holland Harvey was the Dean of the Tuskegee University School of Nursing for 30 years. [35]
The first known African American newspaper in Missouri was the Welcome Friend of St. Louis, which was in circulation by 1870. [1] Yet the first surviving issue of any such newspaper dates from 20 years later in 1890, when the sole surviving issue of The American Negro of Springfield was published.
Kansas City The Call, or The Call is an African-American weekly newspaper founded in 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri, by Chester A. Franklin. It continues to serve the black community of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas .
Josephine Silone Yates helped to found the Women's League of Kansas City, an organization for the self-help and social betterment for African-American women, and became its first president in 1893. In 1896, the Women's League joined the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), a federation of similar clubs from around the country. [ 6 ]