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Posts Tagged ‘History’

Once-Segregated Cemetery Gets Memorial for Hundreds of People in Unmarked Graves

By | August 20, 2021 | 0
Shelton Ponder (left) and Harold Phillips, co-chairs of the Liberty African American Legacy Memorial project, stand in a formerly segregated portion of Fairview and New Hope Cemetery, where ground will be broken for the memorial on Saturday.

The Liberty African American Legacy Memorial seeks to memorialize 758 people interred – most of them in unmarked graves – in the once-segregated section of what is now Fairview and New Hope Cemetery in Liberty.

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Missouri’s Bicentennial Quilt Stitches Together a State With Many Splits

By | August 11, 2021 | 0
Rosalie Gilbert says her husband Charles Gilbert has been a member of the State Historical Society of Missouri since his college years, and he was excited to come see its bicentennial exhibit in Columbia.

The Missouri bicentennial quilt seeks to bring together an often divided state by collecting local stories from each of 114 counties.

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Grappling With Dark Agonies Amid Natural Beauty During Missouri’s Bicentennial

By | August 10, 2021 | 0
Martial Law, or Order No. 11, oil on linen, by George Caleb Bingham, 1868. The painting recalls the aftermath of the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, by Quantrill’s Confederate guerillas, when Union General Thomas Ewing authorized General Order No. 11, which forced thousands of civilians in three-and-a-half Missouri counties along the Kansas border to leave their homes.

As Missouri observes its bicentennial, organizers are grappling with a history defined both by natural beauty and the fight over slavery.

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curiousKC | Who was D.A. Holmes and Why Was a School Named After Him?

By | August 2, 2021 | 0
The Rev. D.A. Holmes (left) receiving an award.

A curiousKC reader reached out wanting to know more about the Rev. D.A. Holmes, and why a school was named after him. This is his story.

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Local Lynching Memorial Perseveres Despite Backlash

By | July 30, 2021 | 0
Bluff Street Bridge, 1894.

The Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City is collaborating with the Equal Justice Initiative to collect jars of soil from the site of every lynching in Missouri.

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