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Title: Sponsor 'Clergy-Industry' Tour: Kansas City Kiwanis Club Plans Annual Event--Civic Responsibility in Group Relations Cited
Description: News of church-related events in Kansas City, including the following: (1) "the "first 'industry-clergy' day" event sponsored by the Downtown Kiwanis Club at the Livestock Exchange Building with "175 local ministers" and "S. Ghulam Quadir, a pastor from Punjab, India"; (2) discussion at the "effects of discrimination" and "coming Supreme Court cases as evidences of a trend favoring civil rights" at "the Presidents Round Table"; (3) observance of "World Community Day" by area churchwomen; and (4) a conference of Lutheran churches, etc.
Date: 1952-12-31
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 6, 1917-1957, Page p828
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 35th Street south to E. 38th Street and from Indiana Avenue east to Myrtle Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area. Noted at top of page, "New Sheet Dec. 1931."
Date: 1917/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Area--National Baptists of America [etc.]
Description: Report about various area religious organizations, including conventions for Baptist and Christian Churches and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Date: 1959-10-28
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Area--Anticommunism Programs [etc.]
Description: Reports about Kansas City area organizations dealing with religious and human rights, involving "anticommunism" with "Operation Survival," etc., minority rights with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, etc., and various churches and church organizations.
Date: 1961-04-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Secular Task Faces Churches
Description: News article mentioning the "Project Equality in Greater Kansas City" for helping to desegregate local Catholic churches.
Date: 1967-08-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Melting Pot: Sunday Hour Moving Toward Multi-Racial Congregations
Description: This is the final installment in a series of articles about the effects of integration on black America. The article focuses on multi-racialism as it pertains to Kansas City-area churches. While the author acknowledges that many church congregations continue to be racially segregated, several examples are given of local churches that are promoting racial diversity.
Date: 2007-08-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 6, 1917-1957, Page p752
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 42nd Street south to E. 45th Street and from Myrtle Avenue east to Elmwood, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area. Update at top of page reads "'NA' June 1941."
Date: 1917/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: The Day the Ku Klux Klan Stunned a Ferrelview Church Congregation
Description: Article about the encounter between a Ferrelview, Missouri, church congregation and the Ku Klux Klan.
Date: 1980-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Desegregation of Churches
Description: File contains several articles, all non-local in nature except one about "Project Equality in Greater Kansas City" about Catholic churches.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 6, 1917-1957, Page p792
Description: A portion of eastern Kansas City from E. 67th Street south to E. 69th Street and from Myrtle Avenue east to Elmwood Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Separate sections show Hillcrest Country Club, George H. Nettleton Home for Aged Ladies, Park Gate, Associated Lumber and Millwork Company, and Blue Ridge Park. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1917/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Grand Avenue Methodist Church
Description: Distant full frontal and side view, looking southeast, of the Grand Avenue Methodist Church, located on the southeast corner of 9th and Grand.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Area--Punitive Action [etc.]
Description: Report about various area religious organizations, including a pay cut to the City Council's human relations secretary, conventions of the Church of the Nazarene and American Baptist Association.
Date: 1960-08-24
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Presbytery of Kansas City and Its Predecessors 1821-1901
Description: Eighty years of exceedingly varied ecclesiastical history are herein reviewed. The period covered, though not longer than that of many lives still vigorous, extends from the earliest establishment of Foreign Mission work among the aboriginal inhabitants, through the exciting decades of frontier settlement. ..well into the present era of peace and prosperity.
Date: 1901
Object Type: Book

Title: Visitation Catholic Church
Description: Full frontal and side view, looking southeast, of Visitation Church, located at 5141 Main.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Grand Avenue Methodist Church
Description: Distant full frontal and side view, looking northeast, of the Grand Avenue Methodist Church, located on the southeast corner of 9th and Grand.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Holy Rosary Catholic Church
Description: Full frontal and side view of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, located on the southeast corner of Missouri and Campbell.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Grand Avenue Methodist Church
Description: Full frontal and side view of the Grand Avenue Methodist Church, located on the southeast corner of 9th and Grand.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Holy Rosary Catholic Church
Description: Full frontal and side view of Holy Rosary Catholic Church, located on the southeast corner of 5th and Campbell.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Grand Avenue Temple
Description: Partial frontal view of the Grand Avenue Temple, located on the southeast corner of 9th and Grand.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

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