Communities and Neighborhoods
Kansas City’s communities and neighborhoods exhibit diversity in religion, cultural expression, race, ethnicity, business, landscape, and architecture. Use the map and other browsing features to explore images and read articles relating to your community, and learn about important events in the social development of each neighborhood .
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“The black schools [in Kansas City] were much better than they had any right to be, partly because they were full of talented teachers who would have been teaching in college had they been white, and partly because Negro parents and children simply refused to be licked by segregation.” Then-reporter Roy Wilkins’s statement about education in the Kansas City area aptly summarizes the unjust obstacles that segregation created for black students, their parents, and educators at the segregated schools of Kansas City.
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