Secondary Sources

This is a comprehensive list of secondary sources that inform understanding of the Pendergast era in Kansas City. Links to catalogs or more information are included where available.
  1. Coleman, Daniel. "Biography of Annie Chambers (1843-1935), Madame," Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, 2007.

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  2. Bauer, George R. A Century of Kansas City Aviation History: The Dreamers and the Doers. Kansas City, MO: Historic Preservation Press, 1999, pp. 68, 86-91, 105-112, 168.

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  3. Sandy, Wilda.  Here Lies Kansas City: A Collection of Our City's Notables and Their Final Resting Places. Kansas City, MO: Bennett Schneider, 1984.

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  4. Rose, Mark H. “'There Is Less Smoke in the District': J.C. Nichols, Urban Change, and Technological Systems.” Journal of the West 25, no. 1 (January 1986): 44-54.

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  5. Macias, Richard. "'We All Had a Cause': Kansas City's Bomber Plant, 1941-1945." Kansas History 28, no. 4. Winter 2005-2006, pp. 244-261.

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  6. Kremer, Gary R. and Mackey, Cindy M. “‘Yours for the Race’: The Life and Work of Josephine Silone Yates,” Missouri Historical Review 90, no. 2 (January 1996), 199-215.

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  7. Lefferts, Peter M. "A Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of N. Clark Smith: Materials for a Biography." University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Digital Commons. 2016

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  8. Wyandotte County Historical Museum (Bonner Springs, Ks.) Hancks, Larry, ed. “A History of Kansas City, Kansas, Municipal Government,” unpublished manuscript; Landis, Margaret. KCK’s Mayors: A Look Back. Kansas City: n.p, n.d.

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  9. Sutton, Mary Cecile. “A History of the Kansas City, Missouri, General Hospital.” Master’s Thesis, University of Chicago, 1946.

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  10. Beatty, Jerome. “A Political Boss Talks about His Job.” American Magazine, February 1933.

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  11. Swisher, Donna. “A Tough Nut to Crack: Unionization and the Donnelly Garment Company,” Kawsmouth: A Journal of Regional History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Summer-Autumn 2002): 18-39.

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  12. "Lincoln College Preparatory Academy History." Lincoln College Preparatory Academy. Accessed July 31, 2018. 

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  13. "African American History 1991: The African Influence – Past, Present, Future" University of Kansas Medical Center Archives.

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  14. Hulston, Nancy J. "African-Americans in Medicine: The Founding and History of Douglass Hospital." Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine Newsletter 1 (Spring 1996).

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  15. Dorsett, Lyle W. "Alderman Jim Pendergast." Missouri Historical Society Bulletin 21 (October 1964):3-16.

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  16. Lee, Fred.  "Annie Chambers' High-Toned Brothel." Kansas City Genealogist 38 (Fall 1997): 83-89. 

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  17. "Argentine High School" by Mattie E. Poppino. Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools website. Accessed 4 Jan., 2019.

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  18. Koso, Kyle. “Awaiting Fate: Old General Hospital Gets Another Look.” KC View (February 21–March 6, 1990).

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  19. Cockrell, Monroe F. "Banking in Kansas City, Missouri, 1920-1928." (1962), Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  20. Robertson, David Brian. “Bellwether Politics in Missouri.” The Forum 2, no. 3 (October 5, 2004).

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  21. Christensen, Lawrence O. "Benton, Thomas Hart," in Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999, 61-64.

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  22. Worgul, Doug. "Big Joe Turner: Godfather of Rock 'n Roll." Star Magazine, 4 Oct. 1998.

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  23. Haddix, Chuck. "Biographical Sketch of N. Clark Smith." Major N. Clark Smith Collection web page. University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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  24. Coleman, Daniel. "Biography of Ernest H. Newcomb (1886-1979), founder of the University of Kansas City." Missouri Valley Special Collections, the Kansas City Public Library, 2008.

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  25. Coleman, Daniel. "Biography of Isaac Katz (1879-1956), Owner of Katz Drug Stores." Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, 2007.

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  26. Ford, Susan Jezak, "Biography of J.C. Nichols (1880-1950), Real Estate Developer." Missouri Valley Special Collections, 2003.

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  27. David Conrads, "Biography of James Leslie Wilkinson," Missouri Valley Special Collections.

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  28. Coleman, Daniel. "Biography of John Lazia (1896-1934), Crime Figure." Missouri Valley Special Collections, 2003.

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  29. Susan Jezak Ford, "Biography of Mary T. Farrow (1880 - 1971), Attorney," the Missouri Valley Special Collections, the Kansas City Public Library, 1999.

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  30. Ford, Susan Jezak. "Biography of Nelle Nichols Peters (1884-1974)." Missouri Valley Special Collections, the Kansas City Public Library, 1999.

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  31. Conrads, David,  "Biography of Roy Wilkins (1901-1981), Journalist and Civil Rights Leader," Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  32. Conrads, David. "Biography of Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), Artist." Missouri Valley Special Collections, 2003.

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  33. Coleman, Daniel. "Biography of Thomas Wight (1874-1949) and William D. Wight (1882-1947), architects." Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  34. Horner, John A. "Biography of Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), composer and music critic." Missouri Valley Special Collections, the Kansas City Public Library.

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  35. Diuguid, Lewis W. “Bluford Contributed More Than Fair News.” Kansas City Star, 20 June 2002.

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  36. Ellis, Caroline Crockett. "Books of the Month." The Midwest Bookman, April 1921.

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  37. “Buys Land for Future.” The Kansas City Star, 22 January 1955.

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  38. "CCD's Lasting Legacy." The Living Light, v. 39, no.4. (Summer 2003)

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  39. Popper, Joe. “Center Exalts Champion for Italian Culture.” The Kansas City Star, 27 July 1996, C1.

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  40. Thomas D. Wilson, "Chester A. Franklin and Harry S. Truman: An African American Conservative and the 'Conversion' of the Future President," Kansas City, America's Crossroads: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006, eds. Diane Mutti Burke and John Herron (Columbia: State Historical Society of Missouri, 2007), 223-224, 232.

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  41. "Chester Arthur Franklin Biography," Kansas City Call, 1959, the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City. Accessed July 31, 2018.

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  42. “City Cedes Rights to Old Hospital.” Kansas City Star (November 20, 1991).

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  43. Proctor, Mary.  “City Window: . . . to Books So Beautiful They’re Works of Art.”  Kansas City Magazine 6 (December 1981): 13-14.

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  44. "Company History," SandenVendo America, Inc. website.

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  45. Pearson, Richard.  "Composer, Music Critic Virgil Thomson Dies." Washington Post, October 1, 1989.

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  46. "Contributions to Missouri Culture: Sally Rand." Missouri Historical Review 91 (April 1997): [353].

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  47. “Distinctive Design and Imposing Size in a Synagogue.” The Kansas City Star, August 26, 1950.

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  48. McGilley, James P. "Do You Remember the Kansas City Speedway?" Kansas City Star. April 9, 1973.

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  49. Wilding, Jennifer.  “Doctor Defiant.”  Kansas City Star, February 9, 1986.

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  50. “Dome Repair: Christ Temple Pentecostal Church Preserves Building’s Historic Architecture with Improvements.” The Kansas City Star, November 17, 1999, City 12.

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  51. Roe, Jason. "Drawn from the Heartland." This Week in Kansas City History, kchistory.org.

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  52. Rhonda Chriss Lokeman, "Elizabeth Bruce Crogman," The Kansas City Star, January 28, 1992.

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  53. Raymont, Henry. "Ernest Hemingway, Star Staffer." The Kansas City Times, 11 April 1970.

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  54. Laura R. Hockaday, "For a Century Now, Crittenton Has Been a Helping Hand in KC," The Kansas City Star, November 3, 1996.

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  55. Lewis A. Erenberg, “From New York to Middletown: Repeal and the Legitimization of Nightlife in the Great Depression”, American Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 5 (Winter 1986)

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  56. “Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Nonprofit Search Profile: Liberty Memorial Association,” 2015, (accessed 21 September 2015). 

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  57. Burns, Brian. "Hemingway's Kansas City." The Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 1986.

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  58. “History Atop Hospital Hill.” Kansas City Star (March 5, 1991).

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  59. "History of Our Public Schools - Wyandotte County, Kansas." http://www.kckps.org/disthistory/dist-history/bios/arg-salvarado.html

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  60. “Hospital Demolition.” Kansas City Star (January 10, 1992).

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  61. “In Shadows of Skyscrapers, Majestic Architecture of the Past,” Kansas City Star, May 31, 1964.

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  62. Katz, Stephen. "Isaac Katz and Katz Drug Stores." Recording of speech delivered at the Kansas City Public Library, June 21, 2009.

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  63. Longstreth, Richard. “J.C. Nichols, the Country Club Plaza, and Notions of Modernity.” Harvard Architecture Review 5 (1986): 120-35.

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  64. Anderson, Paul Y. "'Jim' Reed Himself." The North American Review 225, no. 842 (1928): 394-400.

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  65. Bogen, Gil and Dave Anderson. "Johnny Kling," from "The Baseball Biography Project," Society for American Baseball Research.

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  66. Hulston, Nancy J., "Joseph B. Shannon, Congressman (1867-1943), Crime Figure," Missouri Valley Special Collections, 2003.

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  67. Blackmore, Charles P. "Joseph B. Shannon, Political Boss and Twentieth Century 'Jeffersonian.'" Ph.D. Diss., Columbia University, 1953.

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  68. Burnes, Brian. “Journalist Bluford Dies.” Kansas City Star, 14 June 2001

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  69. Hutchinson, Tom.  "K.C.'s Wooden Race Track Passed into Oblivion 61 Years Ago." Kansas City Star. July 3, 1985.

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  70. Franklin S. Driggs, “Kansas City and the Southwest,” in Jazz: New Perspectives on the History of Jazz by Twelve of the World’s Foremost Jazz Critics and Scholars. Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy eds. (NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1959).

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  71. Grothaus, Larry. “Kansas City Blacks, Harry Truman and the Pendergast Machine.” Missouri Historical Review 69, no. 1 (October 1974): 65–82.

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  72. McFerrin, Ann. "Kansas City Trivialities." Storyboard, June/July 1996.

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  73. Menninger, Bonar.  "Kansas City’s Veteran at a Crossroads." Ingram’s (Oct. 1997): 62-65.

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  74. Christensen, Lawrence O. "Lazia, John F." in Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.

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  75. "Loew's Midland:  Fifty Years of Elegance in Kansas City." Historic Kansas City News (October, 1977).

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  76. Haddix, Chuck. "N. Clark Smith, Biographical Sketch." LaBudde Special Collections website, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Accessed July 30, 2018. 

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  77. Piland, Sherry. “Mary Rockwell Hook: Pioneer Architect.” Helicon 9 (Spring/Summer 1979).

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  78. Penn, Steve. “Matriarch of KC turns 91.”  Kansas City Star, 5 July 2002.

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  79. Snell, Darryn. “Meat-Packing, Race, and Unionization in Kansas City, 1880-1904,” in Global Humanization: Studies in the Manufacture of Labour, ed. Michael Neary (London: Mansell Publishing, 1999), 127-63

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  80. Bates, Sidney L. “Medicine without Method: Kansas City, Missouri's General and Allied Hospitals under the Department of Health, 1870-1962.” Master’s Thesis, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1972.

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  81. Gotham, Kevin Fox. "Missed Opportunities, Enduring Legacies: School Segregation and Desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri." American Studies 43, no. 2, 2002, 5-41.

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  82. "Morton I. Sosland." Milling & Baking News, Baking Hall of Fame Commemorative Issue (June 28, 2006): 50-53.

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  83. Gray, Lisa Waterman. "Much More Than Muffins." Pitch Weekly, 8-14 January 1998.

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  84. McKemy, William E. "N. Clark Smith and Milestones of a Race." University of Central Missouri, 2017.

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  85. Lyle-Smith, E. Diane. "Nathaniel Clark Smith (1877-1934): African-American Musician, Music Educator, and Composer." The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education 17, no. 2 (Jan. 1996): 98-116.

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  86. Horowitz, Roger. “Negro and White, Unite and Fight!”: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997)

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  87. "Our History." University of Missouri-Kansas City website. Accessed 4 Jan. 2019.

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  88. “Painter Left His Mark on area Churches.” Northeast World, 8 October 1986.

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  89. Sies, Mary Corbin. “Paradise Retained: An Analysis of Persistence in Planned, Exclusive Suburbs, 1880–1980.” Planning Perspectives 12, no. 2 (January 1, 1997): 165–91. doi:10.1080/026654397364717.

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  90. Sykes Berry, Susan Debra, “Politics and Pandemic in 1918 Kansas City,” University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2010.

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  91. Wickman, G. Fred.  “Remember James Crews.”  Kansas City Times, January 22, 1988.

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  92. Foor, Mel. "Remembering Hemingway's Kansas City Days." The Kansas City Star, 21 July 1968.

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  93. Conor Nicholl, "Rogan: Ball's Best All-Around Player?: Kansas City Monarchs Star's Talent is Arguably Unmatched," Kansas City Royals website, July 20, 2007.

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  94. Adams, J. G. "Screen Siren." Explore Kansas City, January 1996.

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  95. Wilkerson, Chad R. "Senator Robert Owen of Oklahoma and the Federal Reserve's Formative Years," Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review (Third Quarter 2013): 95-117.

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  96. “Sides Seek Solution in Hospital Dispute.” Kansas City Times (December 7, 1989).

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  97. Wilding, Jennifer. "Southtown History: Where They Lived." Southtown News Magazine 1 (August 1985): 13, 15.

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  98. Loupe, Diane E. “Storming and Defending the Color Barrier at the University of Missouri School of Journalism: The Lucile Bluford Case,” Journalism History 16, no. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1989), 22.

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  99. Coulter, Charles. "Take up the Black Man’s Burden":Kansas City’s African American Communities, 1865-1939. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.

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  100. Harrington, Bob. “Tales of Coon-Sanders,” Mississippi Rag April 1991, pp. 10 – 14.

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  101. Piland, Sherry and Ehrich, George. "The Architectural Career of Nelle Peters." Missouri Historical Review vol. 83, no. 2 (January 1989): 161-176.

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  102. Moriarity, John. "The Arts Return to a Restored Folly." Missouri Life 9 (November 1981): 59-60.

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  103. Lapham, Jim. “The Conversion of Annie Chambers.” Kansas City Star Magazine, 17 November 1974. 

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  104. Sanders, Joe. “The Coon-Sanders Story (Part II),” Jazz Notes. Published by the Indianapolis Jazz Club, Inc., Vol. VI, No.1, (1961): 3.

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  105. Sweeney, Michael. “The Educational Leadership of Hugh Oliver Cook.” Unpublished conference paper, Missouri Conference on History, 2017.

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  106. Moriarity, John. "The Folly's Full Story."  Kansas City Magazine 10 (February 1985): 54-57, 62-64.

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  107. Sawyer, Robert McLaran. “The Gaines Case: Its Background and Influence on the University of Missouri and Lincoln University, 1936-1950” (PhD diss., University of Missouri, 1966).

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  108. Fine, Sidney. "The General Motors Sit-Down Strike: A Re-Examination." The American Historical Review vol. 70, no. 3. April 1965, pp. 691-713.

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  109. Arthur Charvat, “The Growth and Development of the Kansas City Stockyards, 1871-1947: A History,” (Master’s thesis, University of Kansas City, 1948).

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  110. Burns, Brian. "The Hemingway Legacy." The Kansas City Star, 1 July 1992.

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  111. “The History of the Kansas City Call,” the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City.

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  112. Renner, G. K. “The Kansas City Meatpacking Industry Before 1900,” Missouri Historical Review 55 (October 1960): 22-29.

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  113. Rives, Tim. “The Klan on the Kaw: The Ku Klux Klan in Wyandotte County Kansas.” The Historical Journal of Wyandotte County. Vol. 3, No. 14 (Winter 2015-2016).

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  114. Bluford, Lucile H. “The Lloyd Gaines Story,” Journal of Educational Sociology 32, no. 6 (February 1959).

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  115. Millstein, Cyd. “The Making of Municipal.” Star Magazine, October 10, 1982.

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  116. Leifer, Loring. "The Napoleon of Southtown." Southtown News, July 1985.

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  117. Hoffman, Donald. “The Pride of Kansas City.”  Forum 125 (December 1967):  55–59.

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  118. "The Reopening of the Folly Theater." Encore (program guide), 1981.

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  119. “The Rev. John B. Bisceglia” (obituary). The Kansas City Star, 4 December 1988, 52A.

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  120. Patton, Stacey. “The Richest Colored Girl in the World.” Crisis, 2010. -

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  121. Fox, Timothy. “The Secret’s in the Sauce.” Gateway Heritage 23 (Fall 2002): 24-27.

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  122. "The Sutherland Lumber Company." Historic Kansas City Foundation Gazette 6 May/June 1982, 13.

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  123. Hulston, Nancy J. "Thomas C. Unthank, M.D., A Flood, A Dream, A Hospital." Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine Newsletter I (Summer 1996).

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  124. Wood, Henrietta Rix. “Transforming Student Periodicals into Persuasive Podiums: African American Girls at Lincoln High School, 1915-1930.” American Periodicals: A Journal of History and Criticism 22, no. 2, 2012, 199-215.

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  125. Geselbracht, Ray. “Truman Places.”

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  126. "Turner, Joseph Vernon 'Big Joe'." Club Kaycee, People. University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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  127. Paola Banchero, "UMKC Celebrating Double Anniversary," The Kansas City Star, September 30, 1993.

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  128. Navarro, Jason. “Under Penalty Of Death: Pierce City's Night Of Racial Terror.” Missouri Historical Review 100, no. 2 (2006): 87–102.

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  129. Eggener, Keith. “Up to Date in Kansas City:  the Liberty Memorial as Modern Architecture,” Places: Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, (Nov. 2009),

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  130. Rockwell, John. "Virgil Thomson, Composer, Critic and Collaborator with Stein, Dies at 92," New York Times, October 1, 1989.

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  131. Joseph McLellan, "Virgil Thomson, Music's All-American," Washington Post, October 2, 1989.

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  132. L’Heureux, Mary Alice. “Well Connected.” Review, Urban Planning and Architecture Issue, 2006.

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  133. “Well-earned Break for Bluford.” Kansas City Star, 17 July 2001.

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  134. Kremer, Gary R. “William J. Thompkins: African American Physician, Politician, and Publisher.” Missouri Historical Review 101, no. 3 (April 2007): 168–82.

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  135. 75 Years of Kansas City Livestock Market History, 1871-1946: With Which is Combined the 75th Annual Livestock Report for the Year Ending December 31, 1945 (Kansas City: Kansas City Stock Yards Company 1946).

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  136. McGinnis, Edie. A Bag of Scraps: Quilts and the Garment District. Kansas City: Kansas City Star Books, 2012.

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  137. Schirmer, Sherry Lamb, A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.

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  138. Ellis, Roy. A Civic History of Kansas City, Missouri. Springfield, MO: Elkins-Swyers Co., 1930.

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  139. Greene, George Fuller. A Condensed History of the Kansas City Area, Its Mayors and Some V.I.P.s. Kansas City, Missouri: Lowell Press,1968.

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  140. Kirkendall, Richard S. A History of Missouri. Volume V, 1919 to 1953. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1971.

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  141. Rothbard, Murray N. A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II. Auburn, AL: Ludwig Von Vises Institute, 2002.

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  142. Lee, Janice.  A Legacy of Design: an Historical Survey of the Kansas City, Missouri, Parks and Boulevards System, 1893-1940.  Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri, 1995.

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  143. Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade. 30th anniversary ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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  144. Wilson, Laurel. “Kansas City’s Garment Industry,” A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960, eds. Gabriel M. Goldstein and Elizabeth G. Greenberg. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2012.

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  145. Douglas Gilbert American Vaudeville:  Its Life and Times, (New York:  Whittlesey House, 1940)

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  146. Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Vol. 2 (New York: Harper, 1944): 908, 911, 917, 920-21, 923.

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  147. Corrigan, Bernard. “An Answer to His Critics, Frank Walsh and the Kansas City Star.” The National Motorman and Conductor, Vol 1. June 1909 to May 1910. Missouri Valley Special Collections.

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  148. Schirmer, Sherry Lamb. At the River's Bend: An Illustrated History of Kansas City: Independence and Jackson County. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications, 1982.

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  149. Slonimsky, Nicolas, ed. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.

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  150. Basie, William "Bill" "Count." Club Kaycee. University of Missouri-Kansas City. http://www.umkc.edu/orgs/kcjazz/mainpage.htm.

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  151. Hanzlick, David. Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2018.

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  152. Mendoza, Valerie M. Beyond the Border: Gender and Migration to Mexican Kansas City, 1890-1940 (manuscript in progress).

  153. Withey, Henry F. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles: New Age Publishing, 1956.

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  154. Riley, James A. Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994.

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  155. Magerl, Barbara. Biography of Dorothy Gallagher, Social Worker. Missouri Valley Special Collections, 1999.

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  156. Beveridge, Mary. “Biography of Lucile H. Bluford (1911-2003), Journalist and Former Owner/Publisher of 'The Call' Newspaper. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri, 2004, www.kchistory.org.

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  157. Magerl, Barbara. "Biography of Nell Donnelly Reed (1889-1991), Dress Manufacturer," 1999. KC History.

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  158. David Conrads, "Biography of Satchel Paige (Circa 1906-1982), baseball player," the Missouri Valley Special Collections, the Kansas City Public Library, 2003.

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  159. Ford, Susan Jezak. “Biography of Thomas H. Swope (1827-1909), Land Developer and Philanthropist.” Missouri Valley Special Collections.

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  160. Dory DeAngelo, "Biography of Walt Disney (1901-1966), Film Producer," Missouri Valley Special Collections, the Kansas City Public Library.

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  161. David Conrads, "Biography of Wilber (Bullet Joe) Rogan," Missouri Valley Special Collections.

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  162. Holway, John B. Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992.

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  163. McKerley, John W. “‘We Promise to Use the Ballot as We Did the Bayonet’: Black Suffrage Activism and the Limits of Loyalty in Reconstruction Missouri.” Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 2013.

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  164. Daniel Hurewitz, Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2007)

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  165. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Bold Expansion: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007.

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  166. Stenn, David. Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow. New York: Doubleday, 1993.

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  167. Haskell, Harry. “Boss Busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and its Star.” 105-107, 193-195, 280, 309. Missouri Valley Special Collections.

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  168. Haskell, Harry. Boss-Busters & Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.

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  169. Fogelson, Robert M. Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

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  170. Rice, Marc. "Break o' Day Blues: The 1923 Recordings of the Bennie Moten Orchestra." Musical Quarterly vol. 86. Summer, 2002. pp. 282-306.

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  171. McDowell, Joseph. Building a City: A Detailed History of Kansas City, Kansas. Kansas City: The Kansas City Kansan, 1973.

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  172. Schondelmeyer, Brent. Building a First Class Bank: The Story of United Missouri Bank. Kansas City, MO: United Missouri Bancshares, 1986.

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  173. Hayden, Dolores. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.

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  174. James F. Wilson, Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010)

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  175. Jaspin, Elliott. Buried in Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America. New York: Basic Books, 2007.

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  176. McMillen, Margot Ford, and Roberson, Heather. Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002.

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  177. Charles Johnson Collection (SC4), Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri

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  178. Priestley, Brian. Chasin' the Bird: the Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

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  179. Moore, Leonard J. Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

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