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The Brookside Shopping District is located in the Brookside neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri centered at 63rd Street & Brookside Boulevard. The boundaries of the commercial district are Wornall Road to the west, Main Street to the east, 62nd Terrace to the north, and Meyer Blvd to the south.
The 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in was one of the first protests of its kind during the civil rights movement, occurring on August 19, 1958, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In protest of racial discrimination, black schoolchildren sat at a lunch counter with their teacher, demanding to be served and refusing to leave until they were.
Kansas City Black Restaurant Week runs from Sept. 2-11 and is a chance to support local businesses, check out a Black-owned restaurant you haven’t been to yet and revisit old favorites. See the ...
Segregation, Jim Crow laws, and redlining kept Black Kansas Citians east of Troost Avenue for much of the mid-20th century. Prospect became one of the main commercial thoroughfares of the East Side during the 1950s and 1960s, providing the entertainment that the African-American community was barred from in locations such as Westport, the River Quay, and the Country Club Plaza. [3]
Through Oct. 14, more than a dozen Black-owned restaurants will band together to help support Willa’s Books and Vinyl, the city’s longest standing Black-owned bookstore. Not only is it vital ...
The report found that 96% of Black-owned businesses in the U.S. had zero employees, and that Black-owned firms made up only 1.8% of all businesses in the country. Those numbers are virtually ...
Most of the homes in Blue Hills were built in the 1910s and 1920s. From its early years until the 1960s nearly all of the residents of Blue Hills were white and most were working class, making it a working white neighborhood In the early 1960s, the racial composition of the neighborhood changed due to blockbusting, and in the 1970s more than 95% of Blue Hills residents were African-American.
The architect of the Landing Mall was Edward Tanner, who was also the architect of the old Kansas City Missouri School District Building on 12th and McGee Street in Downtown. The J.C. Nichols company commissioned local artist Jac T Bowen to make a medley of 30 almost life-sized animal sculptures that children could climb on for the mall. [ 1 ]