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Title
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Early Kansas City Architects: Alice G. Jackson
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Alice Jackson, an early architect in Kansas City. She was born in Illinois in 1863 and did not start her architectural career until she was almost 50 years old. Description of her life and career, coming to Kansas City about 1910 and likely designing her first house at 3914 Tracy Avenue, continuing to design other residences into the 1920s, including some in the Squire Manor development east of Midtown, the 600 block of Westover Road, 5408 Central Street, 3420 Coleman Road, and 200 West 53rd Street (nearly all in one of three styles: Prairie School, English cottage, or Swiss chalet).
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Date
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1979-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Whitley Sisters Remember: Living with Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Article about the Whitley sisters, a representative group of black women experiencing racial segregation in Kansas City during the "Great Migration" of blacks to northern industrial cities in the 1920s and 1930s, also with much information about the sisters' East Side neighborhood.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
