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Title
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Social Services for African Americans
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Description
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Folder contains Urban League pamphlet with essays: A Revelation of Base Qualities by Lester B. Granger; For a Wider Horizon by A. Philip Randolph; and Bigotry Cannot be Quarantined by Willard S. Townsend. Folder also contains report entitled Community Relations Project of the National Urban League by Ewell L. Newman, Case Work Specialist for Kansas City, Misssouri, April 1946.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Public Schools
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Description
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File contains print of a study by The Kansas City Commission on Human Relations, Sub-Committee on Education, entitled "Intercultural Education in the Urban Public Schools of the United States". The survey was done by Girard T. Bryant, published January 1954, and Kansas City was among the cities surveyed. Also in file is a flyer for a film on the Morgan Community School, ca. 1969.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City Public Accommodations Ordinances
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Description
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File contains two items. One is a one page publication titled Proposed Public Accommodations Ordinance, Kansas City, Missouri, and it states that it was adopted by the Council of Kansas City on September 13, 1963. It additionally indicates that it was read and approved by the City Clerk on January 29, 1964. The second item was prepared by the Kansas City Commission on Human Relations and is titled Analysis of the Proposed Kansas City Public Accommodations Ordinance 29153. It appears to have been published circa 1964.
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Date
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1964~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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African Americans in Kansas City
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Description
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Folder contains three unpublished papers relating to the history of African Americans in Kansas City. (1) "Assets and Liabilities of the Negro Community in K.C.", a radio talk by E.S. Lewis, Oct. 1, 1931; (2) "The Admission of Negroes to the Swope Park Pool" by Alberta D. Shipley, Kansas City University, May 16, 1952; (3) Untitled paper, author unknown, concerning buildings with significance to local African American history, written for Urban History 312, Fall, 1976. File also includes a photocopied newspaper article on early African American firefighters, Kansas City Times, August 27, 1988.
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Date
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1931/1988
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Object Type
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Vertical File