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Author Carr, Margie

Title Kansas City's Montgall Avenue : Black leaders and the street they called home / Margie Carr
Published Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 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
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
16. Conclusion -- Notes -- Primary Sources and Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 13, 2023)
Subject Streets -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- Biography
Housing -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Kansas City (Mo.) -- History -- 20th century
Kansas City (Mo.) -- Race relations
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780700634682
0700634681