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1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The foundation of a community: Montgall Avenue from 1904 to 1919 -- 1. Rufus Montgall: the man behind the street -- 2. 2436 Montgall Avenue: Hugh Oliver and Myrtle Foster Cook -- 3. 2444 Montgall Avenue: Anna Holland Jones -- 4. 2442 Montgall Avenue: Hezekiah Walden -- 5. 2434 Montgall Avenue: Frances and Charles Jackson, Carolyn Brydie, and Gwendolyn Calderon -- Part II. The hub of a community: Montgall Avenue from 1920 to 1940 |
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6. 2451 Montgall Avenue: John Edward Perry and Fredericka Douglass Perry -- 7. 2453 Montgall Avenue: Homer Roberts -- 8. 2447 Montgall Avenue: Chester Franklin and Ada Crogman -- 9. 2444 Montgall Avenue: The Bluford family -- 10. 2457 Montgall Avenue: Piney Brown -- 11. 2449 Montgall Avenue: The Pitman family -- Part III. The transformation of a community: Montgall Avenue from 1941 to 1998 -- 12. Residents reach pinnacle of power, 1941 -- 13. Wartime abroad, changes at home, 1942-1952 -- 14. The civil rights two-step, 1955-1967 -- 15. Surviving riot, attacks, and decline, 1968-1998 |
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16. Conclusion -- Notes -- Primary sources and select bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"A few blocks southeast of the famed intersection of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri, just a stone's throw from Charlie Parker's old stomping grounds and the current home of the vaunted American Jazz Museum and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, sits Montgall Avenue. This single block was home to some of the most important and influential leaders the city has ever known. Margie Carr's Kansas City's Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home is the extraordinary, century-old history of one city block whose residents shaped the changing status of Black people in Kansas City and built the social and economic institutions that supported the city's Black community during the first half of the twentieth century. The community included, among others, Chester Franklin, founder of the city's Black newspaper, The Call; Lucile Bluford, a University of Kansas alumna who worked at The Call for 69 years; and Dr. John Edward Perry, founder of Wheatley-Provident Hospital, Kansas City's first hospital for Black people. The principal and four teachers from Lincoln High School, Kanas City's only high school for African American students, also lived on the block. While introducing the reader to the remarkable individuals living on Montgall Avenue, Carr also uses this neighborhood as a microcosm of the changing nature of discrimination in twentieth-century America. The city's white leadership had little interest in supporting the Black community and instead used its resources to separate and isolate them. The state of Missouri enforced segregation statues until the 1960s and the federal government created housing policies that erased any assets Black homeowners accumulated, robbing them of their ability to transfer that wealth to the next generation. Today, the 2400 block of Montgall Avenue is situated in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Kansas City. The attitudes and policies that contributed to the neighborhood's changing environment paint a more complete--and disturbing--picture of the role that race in continues to play in America's story." -- Amazon.com |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on September 13, 2023) |
| Subject |
Streets -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- Biography
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Housing -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- History -- 20th century
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Housing.
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Race relations.
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Streets.
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Kansas City (Mo.) -- History -- 20th century
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Kansas City (Mo.) -- Race relations
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Missouri -- Kansas City.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780700634682 |
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0700634681 |
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