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2. KC almost stripped a slave owner’s name off a street. Then ...

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   Troost Avenue is well known as the dividing line of Kansas City’s history of racial segregation and economic harm to Black residents. Renaming the street now could have gone a long way towards ...

3. Kansas City council launches survey for feedback on potential ...

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   The Kansas City council launched a survey to gather public feedback before potentially working to rename Troost Avenue.

4. Rename Troost as Truth Avenue? Not until all Kansas City has ...

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   Chris Goode, a former Kansas City Parks and Recreation commissioner, wants to rename Troost Avenue, one of the city’s best-known streets, mostly because it served as a racial dividing line ...

5. J. C. Nichols - Wikipedia

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   Nichols's real estate policies created a racial and economic divide to split Kansas City in half along Troost Avenue for the indefinite future. This eventually crashed the home values on the east side where Blacks and Jews were allowed.

6. Troost Avenue - Wikipedia

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   This dividing line remained ingrained in Kansas City's structure for decades, as a 2018 article in The Kansas City Star reported that neighborhoods west of Troost are white and neighborhoods east of Troost are black. [19] That year, Kansas City mayor Sly James likened Troost Avenue to "the demarcation line in a war zone". [20]

7. Main Street (Kansas City, Missouri) - Wikipedia

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   Address numbers on east–west streets increase in both directions as one moves away from Main Street. This should not be confused with the Kansas City "East Side" and "West Side," a cultural distinction which has arisen from a history of racist segregation in the city, separated by Troost Avenue approximately 1 mile east of Main Street. [1]

8. Who signs off on changing a street name like Troost Avenue ...

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9. 1968 Kansas City, Missouri, riot - Wikipedia

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   The 1968 Kansas City riot occurred in Kansas City, Missouri, in April 1968. Kansas City became one of 37 cities in the United States to be the subject of rioting after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.