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Title: Decades Pass, Struggle Goes On
Description: Three Kansas Citians, Geneva Morris, Alvin Brooks, and retired Jackson County Circuit Judge Jon Gray, "tell their stories of the civil rights movement and assess the progress."
Date: 2008-01-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Downtown in Demand
Description: Article on the increased demand for downtown housing in Kansas City, but vacancies are scarce. The occupancy rates for downtown apartments are near 95 percent and yet no projects are in the works to increase the housing.
Date: 2012-08-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Courthouse Collection
Description: Article provides details concerning the opening of the Jackson County Museum of Art, located within the historic Truman Courthouse in Independence, Missouri. Some of the items on display, 27 paintings by George Caleb Bingham, are described. Ken McClain, the art collector who owns many of the works on display is interviewed. The museum's organization is discussed.
Date: 2013-09-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: He Wants You to Think
Description: Profile of Kansas City artist Peter Cowdin, known to the arts community as A. Bitterman. The author writes that Bitterman was trained as a printmaker, moved to Kansas City in 1988 where he took a hiatus from making art, and decided to apply to the Avenue of the Arts in 2006. The controversies surrounding Bitterman's works are summarized, including: positioning a Wal-Mart sign against the Nelson Atkins Museum of Fine Art's Bloch Building, his proposal to attach a paper mache banana to the side of the Folly Theater, his billboard depicting himself aiming a gun at The Scout statue in Penn Valley Park, and others. Bitterman is interviewed and discusses his works and future artistic endeavors.
Date: 2014-03-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Tiny Renoir Began Impressive Obsession
Description: Article spotlighting the personal collection of French Impressionist paintings of Henry and Marion Bloch. For the last 35 years the Blochs have acquired works from such artists as Manet, Monet, Renior and Degas. Thirty of their paintings will be featured in an exhibit at the new Bloch Buidling of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art titled: "Manet to Matisse: Impressionist Masters From the Marion and Henry Bloch Collection."
Date: 2007-06-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Riveted to KC History
Description: Article focuses upon the experiences of Kansas City women who worked in aviation assembly plants during World War II. Several women are interviewed and describe their lives before, during, and after the war.
Date: 2015-01-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: At Age 101-Plus, He's Been a Campaigner All His Life
Description: Profile on Sam Montague, Kansas City promoter, fundraiser, and civic activist. Among his many projects, Montague worked to pass bonds funding KCI and Truman Medical Center, proposed the "City of Fountains" moniker, pushed "the passage of the public accommodations ordinance that desegregated the city's hotels and restaurants," and was regularly featured in the Kansas City Star's political cartoons in the 1960s.
Date: 2013-12-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Land of Big Dreams
Description: Article reports the increase in the Asian population occurring throughout the Kansas City area. Article includes brief biographical sketches of some outstanding Asian students and information on some of the cultural institutions in the metro. Statistical charts and graphs are included with the article.
Date: 2011-02-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A New Heritage of Frustrations
Description: Article summarizes the current state of the 18th & Vine Jazz District redevelopment plan and problems that have held back its progress. Emanuel Cleaver, Ollie Gates, Troy Schulte, and other interested parties are interviewed and provide their assessment of the longstanding and troubled project. The author states that a lack of appropriate planning, a lack of sufficient funding, and the existence of two independent agencies that oversee development projects, i.e. the Black Economic Union (BEC) and the Jazz District Redevelopment Council Corporation (JDRC), are the primary factors that have stunted development in the area. Plans to address these concerns from U.S. Representative Emanual Cleaver and Kansas City barbecue icon Ollie Gates are covered.
Date: 2013-11-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Showing Faith in Kansas City
Description: Profile of Harvest Church International Outreach and its founder and pastor, Bishop Steve Houpe. Located in the Northland (4300 N. Corrington), the church facility includes a private school (Faith Academy), Sunday school rooms, cafeteria, gymnasium, and bookstore. Houpe moved to Kansas City and established the church in 1986 after earning a Ph.D in theology from Kenneth E. Hagin's Rhema Bible Institute. The work of Houpe and his his wife Donna and the Harvest Church congregation are described in article, as well as the church's development plan, called Project Destiny.
Date: 2014-11-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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