Kansas City in the Jazz Age & Great Depression

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Primary Sources

This is a comprehensive list of primary source materials that inform understanding of the Pendergast era in Kansas City. Links to catalogs or more information are included where available.

  1. Rice, Glenn E. "'Kansas City' Felix Payne Played a Big Role in the Community of the 1930s." Kansas City Star, 6 June 1996.

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  2. Fowler, Richard B. "A Dream Put into a Drawing was Thomas Wight’s Turning Point." The Kansas City Star, April 26, 1931.

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  3. "A Few Interesting Facts about Our New Building." The Tie [10?] ([1930?]): 5. Kansas City Power and Light Company Vertical File, Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  4. "A Foremost Woman Citizen." Kansas City Star, 10 April 1934.

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  5. “A Mural at Memorial.” Kansas City Star, Nov. 20, 1948.

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  6. “A Story That Helped.” Literary Digest, 20 July 1912.

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  7. "A. Ross Hill to Marry Mrs. Hugh C. Ward." Evening Missourian, 1 September 1919.

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  8. Laird, Landon.  “About Town.”  Kansas City Times, February 2, 1945.

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  9. Coolidge, Calvin. “Address at the Dedication of the Liberty Memorial at Kansas City, Missouri,” 11 November 1926. (accessed 19 September 2015). 

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  10. Popper, Joe. “America’s Band,” Kansas City Star Magazine, July 9, 1989.

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  11. Atkinson, Roger. "An Afternoon with Jay McShann." Jazz Ambassador Magazine, JAM (June/July 2006): 20-25.

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  12. Brown, Leonard. "An Interview with Jay McShann." Kansas City...and All That’s Jazz, edited by the Kansas City Jazz Museum, 17-23. Kansas City: Andrew McMeel Publishing, 1999.

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  13. “As a Good Samaritan.” Responsibility 3 (Nov. 1925): 2-3, 10.

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  14. Kavanaugh, Lee Hill. "Back to the Stage." Kansas City Star Magazine, 31 Jan. 2001.

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  15. “Big Mass Meeting and Delegation Dance,” Kansas City Call, June 8, 1928, 5.

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  16. “Cheer Approval!”  Kansas City Star, Oct. 25, 1919.

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  17. "City Hails Lindy." The Kansas City Star, 17 August 1927.

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  18. “City’s Story in Stone.” The Kansas City Star (Nov. 15, 1936): 1.

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  19. “Clendening Dies.”  Kansas City Star, January 31, 1945. 

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  20. "Conrad H. Mann." The Kansas City Star, 27 Dec. 1943.

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  21. “Dr. Clendening Was a Lucid Writer on Medicine for Laymen.”  Kansas City Times, February 1, 1945.

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  22. “Dr. Logan Clendening.”  Kansas City Star, February 1, 1945.

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  23. "Dr. Mayerberg is Dead at 72." The Kansas City Times, 22 Nov. 1964.

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  24. Willis, Luther Orville. "Edward Buehler Delk." Skylines 6 (September 1956): 4-5.

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  25. Swanson, Roger. "Fighting Man of Peace—Rabbi Mayerberg." The Kansas City Times, 19 Sept. 1958.

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  26. “First Annual Flashlight Ball,” Kansas City Call, March 30, 1928, 5.

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  27. MacDonald, A. B.  “Gift to Union Mission of Old North Side Resort.” Kansas City Star, 18 February 1934.

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  28. McCullough, James H. "He Makes Homes Grow in Waste Places: An Interview with Jesse Clyde Nichols," American Magazine (March 1923): 50-51, 127.

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  29. "In Memory of Lou Holland." The Kansas City Times, 17 June 1961.

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  30. “Jackson County Courthouse.” The Architectural Record (December 1936).

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  31. "Jazz Patron, Promoter Milton Morris Dies at 71." Kansas City Times, 22 November 1983.

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  32. "Joseph B. Shannon Vertical File." Missouri Valley Special Collections.

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  33. Clendening, Logan.  “Joys of Old Age.”  Kansas City Star, February 1, 1945. 

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  34. Rodgers, Samuel U., M.D. “Kansas City General Hospital No. 2: A Historical Summary.” Journal of the National Medical Association 54, no. 5 (September 1962). 525-639.

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  35. Kansas City Speedway Association, inc., advertisement, "Kansas City Speedway Racing - The Greatest Thrill of All!," Kansas City Star. July 30, 1922.

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  36. McPherson, J.E. “Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial,” Part I, Arts and Decoration 15 (June 1921).

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  37. “Kansas City’s Record-Making Orchestras,” Kansas City Call, November 30, 1923, 1.

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  38. Ieun, Dr. F. J.  “Keeping the Employees Physically Fit.” The Tie 12 (August 1932): 14-15.

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  39. Greenebaum, Samuel. “Keneseth Israel-Beth Shalom Synagogue: An Architectural Description.” Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, September 1927.

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  40. “Knights Templar Annual Public Family Easter Party,” Kansas City Sun, April 18, 1919, 5.

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  41. Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) Manuscripts Division: Henry J. Allen Papers, “Ku Klux Klan Membership Roster, November 13, 1922.”

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  42. Hubbard, Henry Vincent. “Land Subdivision Restrictions: Notes and Table.” Landscape Architecture 16, no. 1 (October 1925).

  43. "Leaders in Our Town: Lou Holland, Whose Distinction Lies in Services Performed Free." The Kansas City Times, 16 July 1950.

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  44. "Leaders Pause to Mourn Loss." The Kansas City Times, 25 Feb. 1967.

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  45. “Let’s Go!,” Kansas City Call, December 3, 1926, 7.

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  46. “Liberty Memorial Parade A Requiem to the 506 Kansas City Martyrs.” Kansas City Journal-Post, Oct. 25, 1919.

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  47. "Lou Holland Spell Success: 'S-E-R-V-I-C-E." The Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 1926.

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  48. "Louis Oppenstein." Kansas City Star, 16 April 1938.

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  49. Federal Reserve Board. "Map of Federal Reserve Districts." Federal Reserve Bulletin (October 1922), 123.

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  50. Coplon, Jeffrey R. "Mary Lou Williams Took Off Fast in the Wide-Open Days of Swing." The Kansas City Times, 12 June 1981.

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  51. "Matter of Trusts: Forgotten Rich Leave Mark." Kansas City Times, 18 Sept.1997.

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  52. "May We Present Mrs. A. Ross Hill." Future 2 (July 12, 1935): 5.

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  53. "Mayor Cowgill Indorses Victory Monument Plan," Kansas City Journal, 18 November. 1918.

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  54. “Memorial Association Applies for Incorporation.” Kansas City Journal, Oct. 19, 1919.

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  55. Lewis, Milton C. "Milton C. Lewis, M.D." Milton C. Lewis Collection, Truman Medical Center Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

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  56. "Milton Morris buried as Mourners Remember Unique Jazz Institution." Kansas City Times, 24 November 1983.

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  57. Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers Legislative Commission. “Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers Fifty-Third Annual Convention Official Program.” 1938. Ramos-Lincoln Collection-Vertical Files: Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, Box 2, Folder 10. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  58. "Mrs. George W. Fuller." Kansas City Times, 19 June 1944.

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  59. “Nelson C. Crews Dead.”  Kansas City Call, April 27, 1923.

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  60. Jones, Henry Jr. "New Horizons for Rabbi Who Stirs Opposite Views." The Kansas City Star, 19 June 1960.

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  61. “New Mail Office Open.”  Kansas City Star, December 17, 1953. 

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  62. Bluford, Lucile. “New Schools,” The Lincolnite, November 4, 1926, Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri.

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  63. "Open City Air Depot." The Kansas City Times, 9 Dec. 1929.

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  64. Long, Robert A. “Our Liberty Memorial is a Noble Civic Asset,” Citizens’ League Bulletin (23 January 1926).

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  65. "Penpoint Portraits of Kansas City Women." Kansas City Star, 6 May 1928.

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  66. "Peter J. Kelly." Kansas City Times microfilm. Missouri Valley Special Collections.

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  67. Greiner, Mori. “Presenting John B. Gage.” Swing 4 (July 1948): 36-40.

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  68. “R.A. Long’s Vision,” Kansas City Star, 26 October 1919. 

  69. “Refutes Memorial Rumor.” Kansas City Star, Oct. 12, 1919.

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  70. "Roy A. Roberts of The Star Dies." The Kansas City Times, 24 Feb. 1967.

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  71. "Roy A. Roberts." The Kansas City Star. 24 Feb. 1987.

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  72. "Roy Roberts of The Star." The Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 1976.

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  73. “Sculptural Frieze Banding the New City Hall Will Depict Kansas City’s Early History.” Kansas City Star (Nov. 15, 1936): 1.

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  74. Peter, George E. "Sit-Down." American Speech, vol. 12, no. 1. February 1937, pp. 31-33.

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  75. Nichols, J.C., “Suburban Subdivisions with Community Features: Suggestions for Realtors and Community Organizations, as Exemplified in the Country Club District of Kansas City, Mo.,” American City 31, October 1924.

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  76. “The A, B, C of the Liberty Memorial Campaign.” Kansas City Star, Oct. 25, 1919.

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  77. “The Big Tent,” Kansas City Call, April 20, 1928, 4.

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  78. Spence, Hartzell. "The Colossal Mayor of Kansas City." The Saturday Evening Post, 28 Jan. 1956.

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  79. Ancel, Judy. “The Garment Workers," Talk for Kansas City Labor History Tour, October 17, 1992, Institute for Labor Studies,

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  80. "The Legacy of Harry S Truman." The Kansas City Star, 28 Dec. 1972.

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  81. "The Main Steel Grandstand at the Speedway Nears Completion," Kansas City Star (August 13, 1922).

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  82. "The Much-Noted Milton has Seen All the Best." Kansas City Star, 16 March 1980.

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  83. "The Story of Wolferman's." Wednesday Magazine, 11 March 1964.

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  84. “Twenty-Six Floors of City Hall Activity and Four to Grow.” Kansas City Star (Dec. 27, 1936).

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  85. "W. T. Kemper Dies." The Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 1938.

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  86. "W.D. Wight is Dead." The Kansas City Times, October 30, 1947.

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  87. "Why Hudson Oil Ran Dry." Corporate Report-Kansas City. (March 1985) 37-41.

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  88. “Will Be Honor for All.” Kansas City Times, Oct. 14, 1919.

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  89. "Woman's City Club Records (KC0257)."  State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center - Kansas City.

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  90. Kline, Loretta Shea. "Years Finally Slow Down Kansas City Jazz Great, 'Fiddler' Williams." The Catholic Key, 30 April 2004.

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  91. “Your City Hall” brochure, 1937.

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  92. The Jacob L. Loose Million Dollar Charity Fund Association. 50 Years of Philanthropy 1924-1974. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations, 1974.

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  93. American Association of University Women Records (S0739). State Historical Society of Missouri. 

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  94. Benton, Thomas Hart, An American in Art: A Professional and Technical Autobiography, Manhattan: Kansas Quarterly, 1969.

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  95. Benton, Thomas Hart, An Artist in America, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1937.

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  96. Annie Chambers' Brothel. Photograph. The Pendergast Years. Kansas City: Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library. Accessed September 4, 2019. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/9130/10015618/annie-chambers-brothel.

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  97. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Annual Reports of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1919-1935.

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  98. Archival materials on Thomas Hart Benton, held by the Missouri Valley Special Collections. 

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  99. The Associated Negro Press August 4, 1922-

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  100. Athenaeum Forum Minutes, Series 6, Folders 3539-3549. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO.

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  101. Athenaeum Scrapbooks, Women’s City Club Scrapbooks, and books of minutes, Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO.

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  102. Citizens Historical Association. Biographical Data of Kansas Citians. Indianapolis, IN: The Association, 1938-39.

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  103. Book of the Republican National Convention, Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, 1928.

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  104. Carleton Coon Collection, Kenneth LaBudde Department of Special Collections, Miller Nichols Library, University Of Missouri-Kansas City.

  105. Case File 2924, Equity and Law Cases (1913-1938); Western District of Missouri, Western Division, Kansas City, Missouri; Records of the U.S. District Courts, Record Group 21; National Archives and Records Administration – Kansas City, MO.

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  106. Catholic Register (Kansas City, Mo.) 1922

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  107. Ceremonies of the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  108. Society for Suppression of Commercialized Vice, Inc. “Checking Commercialized Vice In Kansas City.” Checking Commercialized Vice In Kansas City. Kansas City, MO: Society for Suppression of Commercialized Vice, Inc., 1921.

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  109. Bluford, Lucile. "Chester Arthur Franklin, 1880-1955." Manuscript, 1968, Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library

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  110. Mayerberg, Samuel S. Chronicle of an American Crusader. New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1944.

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  111. Citizens Association Vertical File. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library. 

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  112. "Citizens League Bulletin." April 6, 1940. Kansas City Citizens League Vertical File. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  113. Citizen's League. “Citizens' League Bulletin, No. 653.” Citizen's League Bulletin. January 12, 1935, 653 edition. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/12642/jchs-ks-s714-p110-0001/citizen....

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  114. “King of Kansas City, Emperor of Missouri.” Citizens' League Bulletin. March 6, 1937, 747 edition. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/10553/shsmo-c0009-f01667-0002/citize....

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  115. "Civic Research Institute Records (K0071)." State Historical Society of Missouri.

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  116. U.S. Senate, Congressional Record (Bound Edition). 67th-69th Congress, 1921-1927, Vol. 61-68. 

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  117. "Constitution and By-Laws of the Charter Party of Kansas City, Missouri," 1939 Charter Party of Kansas City, Missouri, Vertical File. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  118. Armstrong, O K. “Crusade In Kansas City.” Washington Star. March 13, 1938. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/10553/shsmo-c0004-f04323-0001/crusad....

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  119. David Dubinsky. President's Records, 1932-1966. 5780/002. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University; Jt.Bd. and B.C.: Kansas City Jt. Bd., 1939-45.

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  120. Donnelly Garment Company vs. International Ladies Garment Workers Union, et. al. NARA-2924. National Archives at Kansas City, Missouri. 

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  121. Dos Mundos. Kansas City, Mo. : M.A. Reyes.

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  122. Edna Mae Whithouse Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS P797, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries

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  123. Ellen "Nell" Quinlan Donnelly Reed (1889- 1991) Papers (K0444), The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center- Kansas City.

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  124. Perry, J. Edward. Forty Cords of Wood. Unpublished manuscript, Black Archives of Mid-America.

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  125. Frank P. Walsh Papers. The New York Public Library Archives.

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  126. Proctor, David M. “The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia.” The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia. Accessed September 4, 2019. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/10553/shsmo-c0004-f04039-0002/david-....

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  127. Slater, E R. “The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia.” The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia. Accessed September 4, 2019. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/10553/shsmo-c0004-f04156-0001/mr-and....

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  128. Spencer, Nat. “The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia.” The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia. Accessed September 4, 2019. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/10553/shsmo-c0004-f04317-0002/nat-sp....

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  129. 25 Industrus Club. “The Pendergast Years.” The Pendergast Years. Accessed September 4, 2019. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/9704/umkc-lmc-b002-f007-008/25-indus....

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  130. Funeral bulletin for Lucile H. Bluford. Vertical Files - Bluford, Lucile. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  131. Kansas City Publishers Corp. Future. July 5, 1935, Vol 1 edition, sec. 26. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/9130/mvsc-f051-f996-1935-0026/future....

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  132. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Manuscript Collection: George Kessler Papers, Collection K0355

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  133. "Governor Stark to Claude Gorton," Western Union Telegram, April 3, 1940. Stark, Lloyd Crow (1886-1972), Papers, 1931-1941 (C0004). State Historical Society of Missouri. 

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  134. Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Minutes, 1856-1991. Native Sons Archives. (K0274), The State Historical Society of Missouri, Manuscript Collection.

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  135. Greater Kansas City Section, National Council of Jewish Women (K0145). State Historical Society of Missouri. 

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  136. Guadalupe Center Collection, Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  137. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Manuscript Collection: Hare & Hare Archives, Collection K0206

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  138. The Committee on Administrative Practice of the American Public Health Association and the Kansas City Public Service Institute, Health and Hospital Survey. Kansas City, MO: Lechtman Printing Co., 1931.

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  139. Hotel Greeter’s Guide to Kansas City (Hotel Greeters of America: Kansas City, MO, 1928)

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  140. O'Neil, Buck, et al. I Was Right On Time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

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  141. U.S. Senate, 61st Congress, 2nd Session. Reports of the Immigration Commission, Volume 13: Immigrants in Industries, Part II: Slaughtering and Meat Packing (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1911). Informally known as the Dillingham Commission.

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  142. Reed, Laura Coates. In Memoriam: Sarah Walter Chandler Coates. Kansas City, MO: Hudson & Kimberling Publishing Co., 1898.

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  143. Pegler, Westbrook. “In Spite Of All, Mr. Pendergast Runs A Good Town.” Kansas City Journal-Post. February 21, 1938. https://pendergastkc.org/collection/10554/shsmo-k0316-f003-0003/spite-al....

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  144. Industrial Districts Vertical File. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  145. "Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony Submitted to Congress by the Commission on Industrial Relations, Created by the Act of August 23, 1912." 

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  146. Information for Visitors to the Republican National Convention. Kansas City, MO: Lechtman Printing, Co: 1928.

  147. Ingram's. Kansas City, Mo. : Ingram's, c1975-

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  148. Italian American Who’s Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Outstanding Italo-Americans and Italian Residents of the United States. New York: The Vigo Press, 1935.

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  149. Bisceglia, John B. Italian Institute and Central Chapel. Atlanta, Georgia: Presbyterian Church, Home Missions, [1940?].

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  150. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Manuscript Collection: J. C. Nichols Company Records, Collection K0106

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  151. J. C. Nichols Company Scrapbooks, Collection K0054

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  152. J.C. Nichols Vertical File. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  153. Jackson County Medical Society, Jackson County Medical Journal, James L. Soward Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri-Kansas City.

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  154. James Alexander Reed (1861-1944) Papers (K0443), The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City.

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  155. James Alexander Reed (1861-1944) Papers (K0443). State Historical Society of Missouri. 

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  156. Jazz Ambassador Magazine. Kansas City, MO : Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors.

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  157. Joe Sanders Collection (SC1-1), Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  158. John Lazia Vertical File. Missouri Valley Special Collections.

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  159. Journal of the National Medical Association 48 (July 1956).

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  160. Kansas City American. Kansas City, Mo. : Thomas Wolfe, 1902-

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  161. Kansas City Association for the Blind Vertical Files. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  162. Kansas City Business Journal. Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Business Journal, Inc.

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  163. Kansas City Hispanic News

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  164. Kansas City Jazz Oral History Collection (K0012), The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center Kansas City

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  165. Kansas City Jewish Chronicle.Overland Park, Kan., etc., Kansas City Jewish Chronicle Co.

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  166. Kansas City Journal. Kansas City, Mo. : Journal Co., 1897-1928.

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  167. Kansas City Journal-Post. Kansas City, Mo. : W. Laurence Dickey, 1928-1938.

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  168. Kansas City Post. Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Post Pub. Co., 1906-1928.

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  169. The Kansas City Sunday Sun. Kansas City, Mo. : H.L. Preston

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  170. Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Star Co.

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  171. Kansas City Star Magazine. Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Star Co.

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  172. Kansas City Sun. Kansas City, Mo. : H.L. Preston.

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  173. Kansas City Times. Kansas City, Mo. : W.R. Nelson, 1908-1990.

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  174. Kansas City World. Kansas City, Mo. : World Newspaper Co., 1894-1908.

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  175. Kansas City [Ks.] Kansan 1921-1929

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  176. Kansas City’s Ten-Year Plan Records, 1870-1938. Native Sons Archives. (K0272), The State Historical Society of Missouri, Manuscript Collection.

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  177. Hall, Linda and Herbert F. Hall. Last Will and Testament. Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Missouri.

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  178. Laurel E. Wilson (1947-) Papers (K0594), The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City (SHSMO-KC).

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  179. “The Liberty Memorial” brochure, 1962.

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  180. Lincoln High School Student Handbook, 1927-1928. Ramos-Lincoln Collection-Vertical File: Schools-Public--Kansas City--Lincoln H.S., Box 3, Folder 12. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  181. Lincolnian. Lincoln High School. Missouri Valley Special Collections School Yearbooks.1909-1995. Kansas City Public Library.

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  182. Lincolnite. Lincoln High School. Missouri Valley Special Collections School Yearbooks.1909-1995. Kansas City Public Library.

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  183. Kansas Historical Society (Topeka, Ks.) Manuscripts: Ku Klux Klan File; Archives: Records of the Office of the Secretary of State.

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  184. “Marjorie Gage (Mrs. John B. Gage),” Reform Movement Oral History Collection (K0266), Tape 8, Kansas City, Missouri, June 10, 1988, State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City. 

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  185. "May Get in Trouble." The St. Joseph Observer, July 22, 1922.

  186. Microfilm: Kansas City Star & Times Selected Subjects, Roll 19: Mary McElroy. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  187. Microfilm: Kansas City Star & Times Selected Subjects, Roll 37. Missouri Valley Special Collections. 

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  188. Drexler, Kevin. "Missouri Compromise: Primary Documents in American History." Library of Congress: Research Guides. Created March 7, 2019.

     

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  189. Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, at Kansas City. “Judgement and Order Allowing Appeal by Clerk W. H. Harper for Case No. 24023.” Kansas City, n.d.

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  190. Supreme Court of Missouri. “Court Opinion by Commissioner James D. Lindsay for Case No. 24023.” Jefferson City, MO, n.d.

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  191. Scott, Mary Semple. Missouri Woman. 1916-1920. Missouri Valley Special Collections. 

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  192. U.S. Treasury Department. Municipal Ordinances, Rules, and Regulations Pertaining to Public Hygiene. Washington, 1912. 

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  193. Combs, Loula Long. My Revelation. Lee's Summit, MO: Longview Pub. Co., 1947.

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  194. “N.A.A.C.P. Club,” Lincolnian 1928, University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries, Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

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  195. The National Review. Kansas City, Kansas, weekly newspaper, September 25, 1913. 

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  196. Vertical File: Reed, Nell Donnelly (Mrs. James A.). Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  197. Nelly Don at Home. Kansas City, MO: Nelly Don, 1948.

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  198. P31 Nelly Don Collection. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  199. Nelson Gallery of Art. Mounted newspaper clipping files. Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  200. New York Age

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  201. New York Times. New York, N.Y. : H.J. Raymond & Co., 1857-

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  202. New York Times Magazine. New York, N.Y. : The New York Times.

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  203. Organized Crime Files Collection Finding Aid. Missouri Valley Special Collections. 

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  204. "Ada Crogman Directs Pageant in Chicago," Pittsburgh Courier, October 11, 1924.

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  205. Program: Competition for the Selection of an Architect to Design and Supervise the Construction of a Memorial at Kansas City (Kansas City: Liberty Memorial Association, 1920).

  206. United States, Reserve Bank Organization Committee, #51 Missouri (Kansas City), Box 2657, Records of the Federal Reserve System, 1878-1996, Record Group 82.

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  207. U.S. Department of Commerce, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, March 3, 1905 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1905).

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  208. Scottish Rite Progress in the Valley of Kansas City, Missouri. Independence, Mo. : [s.n.], 1925.

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  209. St. Louis Dispatch. St. Louis, Mo. : St. Louis Dispatch Print. and Pub. Co., 1864-[1877?]

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  210. St. Louis Republic. St. Louis, Mo. : G. Knapp & Co., 1888-

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  211. St. Louis Star-Chronicle. St. Louis, Mo. : Star-Chronicle Pub. Co., 1905-1908.

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  212. Kansas. State v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Kansas Supreme Court, Box 971, Case No. 24,729.

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  213. Cooper, Courtney Ryley, Ten Thousand Public Enemies, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.,1935.

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  214. Mottram, R.H. Ten Years Ago: Armistice and Other Memories (London: Chatto and Windus, 1928).

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  215. Society for Suppression of Commercialized Vice. “Ten Years Of Fighting Vice In Kansas City Missouri.” Ten Years Of Fighting Vice In Kansas City Missouri. Kansas City, MO: Society for Suppression of Commercialized Vice, 1923.

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  216. The Appeal July 22, 1922 St. Paul’s The Appeal (vol. 38, no. 29)

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  217. Washington, Booker T. The Booker T. Washington Papers. Ed. Raymond Smock and Louis R. Harlan, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

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  218. Frost, Stanley, The Challenge of the Klan. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923, 1924.

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  219. The Chicago Defender. Real Times Inc., 1905-

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  220. The Urban Land Institute, J. C. Nichols, Winifred Hewetson, J. Russell Hewetson, Herbert Spencer Clark, Marion Cox, Seward H. Mott, and Newton C. Farr. The Community Builders Handbook [in English]. Washington, D.C.: [Urban Land Institute], 1947.

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  221. The Crisis. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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  222. The Franklin Collection, Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City. Accessed July 31, 2018.

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  223. The Future, 1935

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  224. The Kansas Citian. Kansas City, Mo., Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City.

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  225. The Kansas City Call. Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Call Co., 1933-

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  226. The Kansas City Daily Journal. Kansas City, Mo. : Journal Co., 1892-1897.

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  227. The Kansas City Evening Star. Kansas City, Mo. : [s.n.], 1883-

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  228. McPherson, J.E. The Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri (Kansas City: Liberty Memorial Association, 1929).

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  229. The Negro Worker of Kansas City: A Study of Trade Union and Organized Labor Relations (Kansas City: Urban League of Kansas City, 1939)

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  230. Johnson, Fred Robert. 1912. The Social Evil in Kansas City. Kansas City.

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  231. The Use of Deed Restrictions in Subdivision Development. Monchow, Helen Corbin. Chicago: The Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities, 1928.

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  232. The Washington Times

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  233. Topeka Daily Capital. Topeka, A. Capper. May 1889-

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  234. Worley, Jess. “Unfinished Manuscript on the History of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.” N.d. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  235. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Special Reports: United States Occupations: Slaughtering and Meatpacking (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900).

  236. Vertical File: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  237. Vertical File: Moten, Bennie. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  238. Vertical File: Musicians--Local. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  239. Vertical File: Union Station Massacre. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  240. Jackson County Medical Society. Weekly Bulletin of the Jackson County Medical Society. James L. Soward Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri-Kansas City.

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  241. Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City, Missouri. Where These Rocky Bluffs Meet: Including the Story of the Kansas City Ten-Year Plan. Kansas City: Smith-Grieves Company, 1938.

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  242. Bacote, Samuel William, ed. Who's Who Among the Colored Baptists of the United States. Kansas City, Mo.: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1913.

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  243. Baldwin, Sara Mullin, ed. Who’s Who in Kansas City. Hebron, Neb.: Robert M. Baldwin Corporation,1930.

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  244. William Volker & Company Collection. LaBudde Special Collections, Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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  245. Woman's City Club Executive Committee Minutes, April 5, 1932. Woman’s City Club Records (K0257). State Historical Society of Missouri.

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  246. Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers Legislative Commission. “A Comparative Study of Average Annual Salaries Paid to Negro and White Teachers in Missouri, 1933-1939.” Ramos-Lincoln Collection-Vertical Files: Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, Box 2, Folder 10. Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

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  247. “Negro Girl’s Income Exceeds President’s.” Wichita Beacon, Sept. 27, 1913.

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  248. “Prof. Cook Makes Good.” Kansas City Sun, May 6, 1922.

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