Brother, johner pendergrast who came to kansas city in the 1880s and got started establishing this machine in the first ward of kansas city which was in the Industrial City by the river. There were many, there was an irish community, Africanamerican Community it was diverse. There were a lot of workingclass people. Andpendergast had saloons he went and built this machine that was based on favors that helped people get jobs in exchange for fouts, helping people through giving them loans that you did not have to get a formal rank loan and jim would loan the money, settle gambling debts, given money off the top of a legal activities, such as gambling and prostitution. And so on and so forth. That she wasergast getting older, his health was failing. His younger brother got started in the machine around the 1900s. Alderman andd city was in charge of streets for a few years in the early 1900s. Thendergast really was in position to take over the machine by the time that jim died in 1911. The
Graduated in and we had all of 1969. The things the other cities had the panthers, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, the drug culture, the antivietnam phase. Everything was here. All at one time. One thing i learned about kansas city at that point time was we tended to be softer on all of issues than others. Our riots were not as vast. We came together to put those out and we moved forward. We learned how to get along with each other although in my opinion, we still remain too segregated. We have to do more to bring our people together across color barriers, and we are working on that seriously. But the things that i remember are the things i grew up with, growing up in a time in the city where there was a lot of conflict and watching how the city has dealt with that conflict in a way that kept it together without falling apart and moving forward. Baseball museum, his stork 18th and fine in kansas city, missouri. Here we document the story of black baseball in america i