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Title: Homegoing of Loved Ones in Historical Leeds Cemetery
Description: This program from the event marking the renovation of Leeds Cemetery sponsored by the Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition (M.A.G.I.C.) includes a list of persons interred in the cemetery.
Date: 2008-09-20
Object Type: Pamphlet

Title: Housing Conditions for African Americans
Description: Chapter of book, "Housing" covers housing conditions and "spatial isolation", or "the extent to which blacks lived in neighborhoods that are predominantly black". The author also describes efforts by whites to keep blacks out of neighborhoods and some specific neighborhoods, such as Leeds and 18th and Vine. The author finds that, before World War II, neighborhoods were much more diverse and black families spread over more of the city. 18th and Vine district is discussed, pp. 257-262
Date: 2006
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Community Was Rich In Sharing
Description: The current exhibit on the African American community in Leeds, Missouri, is commented on by Steve Penn in his column. The exhibit is located, until September, 2003, at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center and is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Although the community was poor in material wealth it was rich in togetherness.
Date: 2003-07-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Leeds, Missouri, Street Scene
Description: View down a street in Leeds, Missouri. A truck is visible on right. Polfer & Renick General Merchants sign and store is visible on left.
Date: 1916-02
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Jackson County Highway Engineers
Description: Four men identified as County Highway Engineers standing by a car which says Jackson County No. 4. Location identified as Leeds, Missouri. Leeds Hotel is visible behind them.
Date: 1916-02
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 6, 1917-1945, Page p858
Description: A portion of Leeds, Missouri, from E. 35th Street Terrace south to E. 37th Street and from Beacon Avenue east to Bennington Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area. At top of map, "(705-Vol. 5) Add'l Sheet, Nov. 1939."
Date: 1939
Object Type: Map

Title: Leeds Traffic Congestion
Description: Traffic jam along unidentified street in Leeds. A Kansas City Southern Lines railroad bridge is in view.
Date: 1946-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Day Trip Celebrating Kansas City's Leeds Neighborhood
Description: An exhibit in Jefferson City, Missouri, during Black History Month, 2003, featured the community of Leeds, home to a group of African Americans in the Kansas City area. The author details the exhibit as well as the trip to see it. Includes a map of the Leeds neighborhood from a 1925 Jackson County atlas. Also includes a reproduction of the front page of the Leeds School dedication and open house program.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Brief History of the Kansas City Tuberculosis Hospital
Description: The Kansas City Tuberculosis Sanitarium was opened on Christmas Day, 1915. Built in response to the need for specialized tuberculosis care, it was located on a part of the Municipal Farm in Leeds.
Date: 1932-09-24
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Jackson County, Missouri: Its Opportunities and Resources
Description: Section about the Leeds industrial district of eastern Kansas City, describing its important industries, including steel, rock quarries, coal, grain, concrete, lumber, railroads, automobiles, and "approximately ninety per cent of all the homegrown cut flowers used in Kansas City."
Date: 1926
Object Type: Book

Title: Just Like the Garden of Eden: African-American Community Life in Kansas City's Leeds
Description: Article traces the history of Leeds from about 1915 - 1960. Leeds was a semi-rural area within Kansas City where residents could buy their own homes, have large gardens, and raise farm animals. It particularly attracted African-Amercan families who had migrated from the rural south. Despite poverty, the close-knit life in the community, endeared it to many of the former residents interviewed for this article.
Date: 2004-01-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Forgotten Cemetery
Description: Article about Leeds cemetery and the role of Gloria Lundi in saving it from other uses. "Lundi has found burial records for Leeds for people who died between 1910 and 1934." Of the Hispanics buried in Leeds, 90 percent were former Westside residents.
Date: 2011-03-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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