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Title
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National Urban League
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Description
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File contains promotional material for the National Urban League, including a program for the organization's annual conference of 1934, which took place May 18-20 of that year in Kansas City.
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Date
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1930~/1949~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers
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Description
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File contains items pertaining to the Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, including the program from the organization's 53rd annual convention, which took place in Kansas City in November, 1938. Also contains a study undertaken by the association comparing average annual salaries of African American and white teachers in Missouri from 1933 through 1939.
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Date
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1930~/1949~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Marian Anderson
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Description
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File contains two programs and one advertising flyer. One program is for a concert by Marian Anderson at Ararat Temple, February 16, 1937. Located in the back of this program is a list of local African American musicians. The first ones listed are the grandchildren of Frederick Douglass who were living in Kansas City, Fredericka Perry, Rosa Jones and Hattie Sprague. The second program is undated and was part of the Fritschy Concert Series. The advertising flyer is for a concert at the Music Hall with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, no date.
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Date
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1930~/1949~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Health--Kansas City
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Description
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File contains three documents related to the health of African Americans in Kansas City, Missouri. One is a pamphlet describing briefly the history of African American hospitals in Kansas City (including General Hospital No. 2, Lang Hospital, and Wheatley Hospital). The second is an April 1946 report on Kansas City health issues by Dr. W. Montague Cobb of Howard Univeristy, and the third is a 15-page typed letter (undated) by Dr. William J. Thompkins to Dr. John Lavan (a Kansas City health commissioner), regarding unhealthy conditions in African American neighborhoods.
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Date
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1930~/1949~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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DuBose and Dorothy Heyward
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Description
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File contains a playbill and program for a production of the play Porgy, by Dorothy and Dubose Heyward, performed at the Shubert Theater in Kansas City beginning December 9th of an unspecified year. The character of Porgy was played by Frank Wilson, and Evelyn Ellis portrayed Bess in the production, presented by the Theater Guild, Inc.
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Date
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1930~/1949~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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African American Theater Programs
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Description
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File contains seven theater programs that featured African American productions or performers. Includes: "Fantasy in Black and Gold, A Musical Revue", presented by Beta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Municipal Auditorium, May 21, 1936; "The Playgoer", a Shubert Theater publication, n.d., featuring Ethel Waters in "Rhapsody in Black"; "In Abraham's Bosom" presented by the Kansas City Drama League at Ivanhoe Temple, 1928; "Beau Brummel Minstrels" presented by the Beau Brummel Club, Ararat Temple, 1934 (contains numerous ads for African American businesses at the time); Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps presented by the Paseo Branch, YWCA, at the Centennial M.E. Church, n.d.; "Claudia" presented by the Negro Drama Group of New York at Music Hall, November 13, 1946; and "Othello" with Paul Robeson, presented by the Theatre Guild, Auditorium, ca1945.
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Date
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1930~/1949~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
