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Title
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The Negro in Kansas City
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Description
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1944 Survey of African-American community in Kansas City designed to "bring to light facts regarding problems which face the Negro in Kansas City, Missouri, and which are not commonly known by the public." Authors were the Broadside Study Group of League of Women Voters. Topics include education, health and welfare, housing and sanitation, cultural and recreation facilities, labor and employment, and public service. The survey ends with recommendations and a resources / bibliography section.
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Date
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1944-04
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Pool Segregation Put KC in Spotlight
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Description
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Story relates how on January 15, 1952, Thurgood Marshall, later a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, led this area's civil rights cause concerning the desegregation of the all white Swope Park Swimming Pool. Story quotes from Senior U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs, then a law clerk to federal judge Albert Ridge, and Alvin Brooks, current Kansas City mayor pro tem. Includes a post card image of Swope Park pool and a photograph of Parade Park pool at 17th and the Paseo.
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Date
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2002-01-15
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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African Americans in Kansas City
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Description
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Folder contains three unpublished papers relating to the history of African Americans in Kansas City. (1) "Assets and Liabilities of the Negro Community in K.C.", a radio talk by E.S. Lewis, Oct. 1, 1931; (2) "The Admission of Negroes to the Swope Park Pool" by Alberta D. Shipley, Kansas City University, May 16, 1952; (3) Untitled paper, author unknown, concerning buildings with significance to local African American history, written for Urban History 312, Fall, 1976. File also includes a photocopied newspaper article on early African American firefighters, Kansas City Times, August 27, 1988.
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Date
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1931/1988
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Object Type
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Vertical File
