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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” — Jackie Robinson. Welcome to the 2025 Kansas City Black History Project with a new collection of free booklets, posters and calendars to be shared in honor and celebration of great men and women in our city’s history. Click to learn more and download the project.
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The Kansas City Black History Project has returned with an eight-page booklet and poster set featuring profiles of six area men and women who enriched, entertained, strengthened and even saved lives. See who is featured this year and learn how to get your copy.
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Raised in Kansas City’s east side, Alvin Sykes would find power in libraries to rise up as a human rights icon, redressing wrongs in the U.S. justice system, championing new investigations into the murders of Emmitt Till and Leon Jordan.
His story is one of eight new biographies that highlight the second edition of the national award-winning publication, Kansas City Black History. Learn more and order a copy by clicking here.
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They never age. The images, freshly hung on the walls of Kansas City’s Black Archives of Mid-America, 1722 E 17th Terrace, promise to make the sacrifices of the 1960s real to a new generation that still struggles with civil rights.
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Kansas City history is making national history. The American Association for State and Local History has named the Kansas City Black History Project as a 2022 winner of its “Award of Excellence,” honoring the work of LINC, the Kansas City Public Library and the Black Archives of Mid-America
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Everything that’s motivated the 12 years of work in the Kansas City Black History Project — the research, the storytelling, the teaching and sharing — has gone fully digital. An enhanced webpage unleashes the stories of more than 80 Black men and women into sortable lists, school lesson plans, poetic video, essays and links to recorded oral history.
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The Jackson County Historical Society will honor the Kansas City Black History Project by the Kansas City Public Library, the Black Archives of Mid-America and LINC at its annual awards dinner this month.
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For more than a decade, researchers with the Kansas City Public Library and the Black Archives of Mid-America have been working with LINC to tell the deep and influential history of Kansas City Black women and men. Now it’s time that Wikipedia got up to speed.
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A 12-year project of gathering the stories of influential Black men and women in Kansas City’s history has won a state wide award for excellence.
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Levi Harrington lived his life in a Black man's world laced with the unfathomable fear of lynching. He died 139 years ago last week, roped at the neck and slung over a beam on the Bluff Street Bridge by a white mob in Kansas City's West Bottoms — murdered at the age of 23.
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