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Southeast High School Alumni Association Marking Back to Castle 75th Anniversary Celebration
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Article announces that the Southeast High School Alumni Association will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the school's first graduating class in 1939 on October 11, 2014. Details of the anniversary celebration are provided. Preston Washington, the first African-American student to attend the school in 1957, is interviewed and describes his experiences with school integration. Washington also briefly describes his life and career after graduating.
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2014-10-03
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Newspaper Article
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Phoenix Society Was Kansas City's First Gay Organization
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Article covers the history of the Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom, Kansas City's first organization devoted to the gay and lesbian rights movement, founded in March13, 1966. The author describes Drew Shaffer, the organization's first president and driving force during its five-year existence. The group's publications, activities, and headquarters, located in a house on the southeast corner of Linwood and Paseo Boulevards, before its demise during the early-1970s are described.
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2014
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Newspaper Article
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Big River Bushwhacker
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Brief bio of Sam Hildebrand, nicknamed the "Big River Bushwhacker." Information states that Hildebrand acted as an outlaw, Confederate bushwhacker, and rebel guerilla during and after the Civil War in Southeast Missouri.
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2013-05
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Magazine Article
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New Belt Line Is Incorporated
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The Kansas City Industrial Belt Railway Company is the name of a new corporation that received its charter from the state yesterday (June 8, 1912). The present capitalization is $500,000, which will be increased as the company develops its aims and purposes: to construct and operate switching facilities to lands it will develop in the east and southeast parts of the city and establish factories and industrial plants. ..It will furnish direct entrance to the new Union Station for four great systems: the Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, Frisco and Kansas City Southern. ..
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2012-06-08
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Newspaper Article
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KCPS Names New Principal to New African Centered Prep
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The Kansas City Public Schools selected Joseph Williams III to serve as the principal of the African Centered College Prepatory Academy, which replaced the ACE Program at the old Southeast High School.
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2012-06-01
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Newspaper Article
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A Grand Centennial for a Grand Church
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The Grand Avenue Temple United Methodist Church (205 E. 9th St., southeast corner of 9th Street and Grand Boulevard) was completed February 1912. It is the second church building that the United Methodist Church built in that location. Today the church is home to the "inderdenominational Lazarus Ministries, which provides clothing, meals, a health clinic, a library and a women's shelter to Kansas City's urban core. Many of the 200 or so worshippers at the Sunday service are homeless." Article gives some history of the building and church.
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2012-02-07
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Newspaper Article
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"Like a Brilliant Thread"
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Article recounts the December 1921 coal strike in southeast Kansas involving the "Amazon Army"- the wives, mothers, sisters, and friends of the striking mine workers. They led a series of marches to prevent any escalation of violence, but also to keep strikebreakers from reopening closed Kansas mines.
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2011
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Class Ending on a High Note
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Article profiles the last senior class of Southeast High School and their principal Cheryl Wright. The original Southeast High School at 3500 E. Meyer Blvd closed in 2007, but the remaining students were given the opportunity to stay together instead of transferring to other schools. Students started attending classes at Manual High School in 2007. All 47 seniors from the 2010 class will graduate.
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2010-05-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Interview with Mary Lou Chalmers
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Interview with Mary Lou Chalmers about her experience working in Kansas City's garment industry from the late 1950s through late 1970s.. She discusses enrolling in the fashion design program at Kansas City Art Institute, as well as taking courses at Fanny Fern Fitzwater School of Fashion Illustration and the Isabelle Boldin School of Fashion, and then working in design and pattern-making at area garment companies such as Nelly Don and Gay Gibson. She describes the process of designing and making clothing, her experiences at numerous companies, the perks of working at Nelly Don, and times that her designs were featured in national magazines. She also discusses the decline of the garment fashion industry in the 1970s, the homogenization of shopping, and the shift to manufacturing in Asia.
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2010-05-07
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Object Type
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Video Recording
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Closings Rile KC District Parents
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In an effort to cut $50 million from the budget, the Kansas City school district is attempting to consolidate the district's 60 schools. Superintendant John Covington has recommended that the African Centered Education Collegium Campus (ACE) consolidate their program into Southeast High School, the campus upper school. ACE supporters believe the three buildings that make up the campus should be spared in the proposed cuts.
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2010-02-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Sore Spot for Southeast
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Residents of Hickman Mills, Ruskin Heights, and other southeast Kansas City neighborhoods are disheartened by reports that Kansas City Wizards ownership will likely back out of a plan to build new soccer stadium at the old Bannister Mall site. A new proposal calls for construction of a stadium and Cerner Corporation office complex near the Kansas Speedway in Wyandotte County.
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2009-09-12
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Newspaper Article
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