Black History Stories

Learn more about the project at: kcblackhistory.org

Click on an individual to learn their story.

Samuel W. Bacote

Etta Moten Barnett

William “Count” Basie

Tom Bass

Colored Battery at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Ida M. Bowman Becks

Mary Groves Bland

G. Lawrence Blankinship, Sr.

Rebecca L. Bloodworth

Lucile H. Bluford

Dr. Girard T. Bryant

Mildred Carter

Andrew Carter

R. T. Coles

Hugh O. Cook

Hugh O. Cook - Football Squad

Minnie Lee Crosthwaite

Aaron Douglas

Frederick Douglas

William L. Fambrough

Lloyd Gaines

Junius G. Groves

John A. Hodge

Harold L. Holliday Sr.

Daniel Arthur Holmes

L.C. "Speedy" Huggins

Langston Hughes

The flag of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry

Island Mound

Herman and Dorothy Johnson

Anna H. Jones

Classroom of Anna H. Jones

Orchid Jordan

Leon Jordan

Gertrude Keith

Andy Kirk

Florynce R. Kennedy

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Julia Lee

1st Missouri Regiment of Colored Infantry

Rosie Mason

William D. Matthews

Joelouis Mattox

Jay McShann

Fannie L. Meek

Sergeant William Messley

Bettye Miller & Milt Abel

Wayne Miner

Corinthian Clay Nutter

Barack Obama II

John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige

Charlie Parker

Gordon Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks

John Edward Perry

Horace M. Peterson III

Bernard Powell

John F. Ramos Jr.

Cloteele T. Raspberry

Lena Rivers Smith

Charles Wilber “Bullet” Rogan

Henry Warren Sewing

Major N. Clark Smith

Rosemary Smith Lowe

Bailus Tate Jr.

Myra Taylor

Earl Thomas

William J. Thompkins

Leona Pouncey Thurman

Lafayette A. Tillman

Melvin B. Tolson

Sojourner Truth

Thomas C. Unthank

Bishop William T. Vernon

Bruce R. Watkins

Roy Wilkins

Hazel Browne Williams

Cathay Williams

Mary Lou Williams

Edward Wade Wilson Jr.

Malcolm X

Josephine Silone Yates

Hiram Young

Chester & Ada Franklin

Eugene E. Eubanks

Benny Moten

Alvin Sykes

Fletcher David Daniels

Homer B. Roberts

Inez Kaizer

The Street Hotel. Reuben & Ella Street

Learn more about the project at: kcblackhistory.org