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A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
Sundown counties [2] and sundown suburbs were created as well. While sundown laws became de jure illegal following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, some commentators hold that certain 21st-century practices perpetuate a modified version of the sundown town.
The Bannister Federal Complex was a United States federal government complex at 1500 E. Bannister Road in Kansas City, Missouri.The 310-acre (125.5 ha) complex consisted of 10 buildings at the corner of Troost Avenue and Bannister Road.
Downtown Kansas City is defined as being roughly bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the east, and State Line Road to the west. The locations of National Register properties and districts are in an online map.
"Cities and Towns: Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri". Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4787-7. American Cities Project (2013). "Kansas City (MO)". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, DC: Pew Charitable Trusts. William S. Worley (2002). Kansas City: Rise of a Regional ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — New Year’s Day brings new laws in both Missouri and Kansas. One impacts anyone driving in Missouri. Enforcement will begin for Missouri’s hands-free law which prohibits ...
Westport is a historic neighborhood and a main entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri.. In the early 1800s, West Port was settled by a group led by American pioneer and tribal missionary Reverend Isaac McCoy, who brought his son John Calvin McCoy as surveyor, and his son-in-law Reverend Johnston Lykins who bought the land.
Gotham, Kevin Fox. "Missed opportunities, enduring legacies: School segregation and desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri." American Studies (2002): 5-41. online; Gotham, Kevin Fox. "A city without slums: Urban renewal, public housing, and downtown revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 60.1 (2001 ...