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Literacy KC Adventure app offers guided tours to Black history markers in Kansas City
The Literacy KC Adventure App offers a guided tour about Kansas City s Black history.
and last updated 2021-02-26 07:39:37-05
KANSAS CITY, MO â All this month,
41 Action News has observed Black History Month, with stories encouraging viewers to learn more about some of the impactful people and places in Kansas City.
Now, Literacy KC has developed an smartphone app to take people on guided tours of some of those locations.
One such example is D.A. Holmes School on Benton Boulevard. Built in 1904, the building now houses apartments for seniors. But during the 90 years it was a school, it became a chapter in Kansas City s educational segregation story.
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Wearing a mask, volunteer Caden Gird sets up a holiday tree in the parlor of the Wornall House. Across the metro, many historical sites are still open to visitors for a quieter holiday season.
Disease and conflict shadowed frontier life during the heydey of many historic homes in the metro. Visitors have a chance to view today s events through the lens of history at places like the John Wornall House and the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm.
John and Eliza Wornall lost five of their seven children before they reached their 3rd birthdays, and John Wornall s brother died of cholera on the Oregon Trail.