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A Record of Kansas City Black History: 'Chant Their Names, Almost As If Holy'


“I sing their names . . .,” writes Kansas City poet Glenn North.
His words are one of several contemporary voices joined in a new, 44-page book that collects the more than 70 biographies that the Kansas City Black History Project team has researched and shared with the Kansas City community since 2010.
“I sing of… Langston and Parker, Ms. Bluford and Mary Lou, Old Buck, Leon Jordan, Horace and Bruce . . .”
Every year, the project told the stories behind seven or eight of the names hidden by time. It gathered them in booklets and posters that were given to schools, libraries and other public spaces used by teachers, librarians, mentors and parents to raise up a neglected history. ....

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For Black History Month, A Way To Honor More Kansas Citians Who Deserve 'To Be Remembered'


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A crowd gathered for the 1914 cornerstone laying at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri.
Stories of the most famous African Americans from Kansas City are well told, but the work of many more community members often goes unrecognized.
When it comes to the history of the African American community in Kansas City, almost everyone knows the big names people like jazz great Charlie Parker or baseball legend Buck O’Neil, who are both memorialized in countless ways around the metro.
“But that’s just a small number of the people who worked together and individually to build life and culture for Black Americans,” said Carmaletta Williams, executive director of the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City. ....

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