Race Relations and Civil Rights

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Political cartoon and accompanying message urging support for Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Barrett.

1936

Photograph of the Niles' Home for Orphan children, an orphanage for African-American children, located on the south side of 23rd Street betwee

1 /30 /1937

Photograph of the R. T. Coles Vocational School Class of 1937 posed outside of the main entrance to the school. R. T.

6 /1937

Photograph of the Annual Missionary Baptist Convention, held at the First Baptist Church in downtown Kansas City, Kansas on October 5, 1937.

10 /5 /1937

Circa 1938 photograph of the Black Elks parade crowd on south side of 18th Street, between The Paseo and Vine Street, Kansas City, MO.

1938

Circa 1938 photograph of a military unit marching west in the Black Elks parade at 18th Street and The Paseo.

1938

Circa 1938 photograph of a men marching west in the Black Elks parade at 18th Street and The Paseo.

1938

Circa 1938 photograph of the Black Elks band marching west at 18th Street and The Paseo. Street’s Hotel and Crown Drug Co.

1938

Circa 1938 photograph of majorettes marching west at 18th Street and The Paseo in Black Elks parade. Source: Black Economic Union.

1938

Circa 1938 photograph of marching band with majorettes in front marching west in the Black Elks parade at 18th Street and The Paseo.

1938

Photograph of the R. T. Coles Vocational School Class of 1938 posed outside of the main entrance to the school. R. T.

1938

Circa 1938 photograph of the Association of Daughters of Elks (St.

1938

Program for the fifty-third annual convention for the Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers.

11 /1938

A 1939 photograph of Milton C. Lewis in Kansas City, Missouri.

1939

Photograph of the Paseo Baptist Church Adult Choir under the direction of Mrs. D. A. Holmes.

7 /16 /1939

The Generalite, 1940 is a yearbook for the General Hospital Number Two, Class of 1940. Included are portraits of Dr.

1940

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