Honoring Minority Veterans, A Century Later

Thomas Jones, bottom right.

A task force at Park University is conducting a systematic review of World War I to find minority soldiers who might have been denied a Medal of Honor due to discrimination against their race or religion.

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curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past

Archival photos are laid on a tan piece of paper, denoting how our journalist traced down the history of Parkville.

In 1956, Pearl Spencer was one of the first Black students to enroll in Parkville’s newly integrated high school.  Spencer and her siblings still vividly remember their experiences growing up Black in Parkville – the good, the bad and the ugly.  A reader asked curiousKC to look into who lives in what was once the…

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