MLK in Kansas City

Martin Luther King, Jr. sat for an interview with longtime Kansas City broadcaster Walt Bodine and his colleague Bill Griffith.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. visited Kansas City at least six times between 1957 and 1968.

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The People Have Spoken on Honoring MLK in KC…

mlk park sign and acreage

It can be easy to miss as you motor along Swope Parkway near Bruce R. Watkins Drive on the east side of Kansas City, Missouri. Yet this broad swath of open space, wedged between the parkway and Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard, is a public park named for the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King…

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