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Title: Baton Twirlers in Parade
Description: Black female baton twirlers in uniform marching south along Grand south of 13th Street in unidentified parade; onlookers nearby.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Parade Scene
Description: Black men and women in uniform marching south along Grand south of 13th Street in unidentified parade; onlookers nearby.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Parade Scene
Description: Black members of unidentified marching band, in uniform, marching south along Grand Avenue near 13th Street in an unidentified parade.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Priests of Pallas Parade Carriage
Description: Women in formal dress in horse-drawn carriage; horses being led by black men.
Date: 1905
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Priests of Pallas Parade Carriage
Description: Women in formal dress in horse-drawn carriage, being driven by black man.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Parade Park
Description: Description of the 20.99-acre park acquired in 1900, between Paseo, Truman, Woodland, and 17th Terrace, with photos and history as the first local playground and "one of the earliest parks designated for the exclusive use of African-Americans."
Date: 1995
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1950, Page p319
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 17th Street south to E. 19th Street and from The Paseo east to Woodland Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Blacks Have Endowed KC
Description: Three-part article about three prominent African Americans from Kansas City's past: Judge Carl Johnson, Minnie Crosthwaite, and Rev. D.A. Holmes. Carl Johnson was "the first black elected to a judgeship in Kansas City" and "the Division Four judge of the Kansas City Municipal Court" from 1955 to his death in 1960. He was a native of Georgia who moved to Kansas City as a lawyer. Minnie Crosthwaite was the founder of a long-standing "fashion show to benefit the all-black Wheatley-Provident Hospital" starting in 1921. She was born in Nashville in 1872 and moved to Kansas City about 1890 as a science teacher, before becoming a social worker involved in helping the new hospital "pay off its mortgage, purchase a new X-ray machine, modernize its kitchen and buy an adjoining house as a home for nurses in training." Crosthwaite's shows featured a children's parade followed by an adult parade. D.A. Holmes (1877-1972) was "a well-respected leader in the black community" and "known for lashing out against the Pendergast machine, calling it dishonest government that only bribed blacks for support." Rev. Holmes was a native of Macon, Missouri and moved to Kansas City, Kansas, in 1914 as builder of the Metropolitan Church and a civil rights activist. In 1921 he became a minister at the Vine Street Baptist Church and later moved the church to Paseo and renamed it the Paseo Baptist Church.
Date: 1986-02-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1957, Page p319
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 17th Street Terrace south to E. 19th Street and from The Paseo east to Woodland Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Pool Segregation Put KC in Spotlight
Description: Story relates how on January 15, 1952, Thurgood Marshall, later a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, led this area's civil rights cause concerning the desegregation of the all white Swope Park Swimming Pool. Story quotes from Senior U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs, then a law clerk to federal judge Albert Ridge, and Alvin Brooks, current Kansas City mayor pro tem. Includes a post card image of Swope Park pool and a photograph of Parade Park pool at 17th and the Paseo.
Date: 2002-01-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: When Kansas City Celebrated Slavery's End
Description: Illustration and article about the stark contrast in amount of celebration between the emancipation of slaves in Kansas City on January 21, 1865, and its centennial. Description of the festivities in 1865 Kansas City, including bright lights, cannon firings, bonfires, band concerts, parade on Main Street and the levee, banners, courthouse gatherings, special train tours of the area, etc., with photo. Also description of Union General and Kansas Senator James Lane and the Jayhawkers or Red Legs.
Date: 1965-07-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Ground Broken for Black Archives
Description: Ground was broken on December 4, 2007, for the new home of the Black Archives of Mid-America. "About $4.6 million in city funds is being used to renovate a former park maintenance building at Parade Park in the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District. The facility will house the archives and other offices starting next fall."
Date: 2007-12-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1957, Page p320
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 17th Street south to E. 19th Street Terrace and from Woodland Avenue east to Garfield Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: A New Home for Black Archives
Description: The newly renovated Parks and Recreation building, the former Parade Park Maintenance Building at 1722 E. 17th Terrace in the 18th and Vine district, has been completed for the home of the Black Archives of Mid-America. The renovation was made possible with a grant in 2008 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of a $1 million to the Kansas City Public Library "to support completion of the build-out and renovation of the archives' new home." Horace Peterson began the Black Archives in the 1970s. Recently a new director has been appointed, Doretha Williams, "a Topeka native and holder of a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Kansas."
Date: 2011-01-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article